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Re: what is going on here I wonder?

November 10, 2017 08:35PM
I gotta step on my librarians soapbox.
Photos are being digitized at breakneck speed.
The editorials (fancy word is metadata) just can't keep up.
So, yeah, many descriptions are just plain lousy.

To their credit, both images include a contact for improved information.
I confess, that I have not done so, therefore my soapbox is a bit flimsy.....

How would one poor librarian describe a freight train going past Jukes tree?
One (who knows trains) would talk about the locomotive.
Another (from an arborist background) would describe the tree.

Cheers from Dallas, TX, where I would probably be describing brake release intervals on "K" versus "H" valves.....
-Clyde Putman
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