"[Searchability] is the real leap,” Stingone says. “Because what you find once you have..."
ARL Policy Notes 2013-09-04
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“[Searchability] is the real leap,” Stingone says. “Because what you find once you have this massive amount of text [is] that you could pretty much put in any word you could think of and find something.”” -
For Biographers, The Past Is An Open (Electronic) Book : All Tech Considered : NPR
Stingone is talking about born-digital materials, but the power of searchability is also of at the heart of the transformativeness of digitization. Digital search is one of the most powerful tools in the hands of a 21st century researcher.