The TFAO Digital Library File Inventory (original) (raw)
The TFAO Digital Library
(above: Norman Rockwell, Fishing Trip, They'll Be Coming Back Next Week, 1919, oil on canvas, 29 x 29 inches, Norman Rockwell Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
On 3/6/24 the online TFAO Digital Library had these file counts:
Text:
1aa = 701
2aa = 687
3aa = 705
4aa = 706
5aa = 683
6aa = 693
7aa = 562
8aa = 688
9aa = 671
10aa = 689
11aa = 692
12aa = 378
adv = 11
apprais = 160
andres = 8
anne = 12
states = 7
beserra = 32
subjects = 57
book = 3
bookpage = 172
calendar = 50
chronology = 8
distingu = 55
msjc = 8
newsassn = 76
newsm1 = 703
newsmu = 669
permc = 58
srcbook = 18
utah = 10
site = 44
Text total = 10,036
Image:
1am = 641
2am = 629
3am = 699
4am = 698
5am = 698
6am = 698
7am = 695
8am = 687
9am = 631
10am = 683
11am = 684
12am = 685
13am = 677
14am = 686
15am = 244
16am = 678
17am = 685
18am = 368
19am = 117
am series subtotal = 11,583
1cm = 799
2cm = 727
3cm = 698
4cm = 895
5cm = 667
6cm = 638
7cm = 695
8cm = 528
9cm = 697
10cm = 698
11cm = 454
12cm = 548
cm series subtotal = 8,133
okeeffe = 14
permc = 67
srcbook = 30
utah = 11
canyon = 36
distingu = 453
enman = 15
logo = 118
lrsmith = 17
mdixon = 24
mi = 719
mi1 = 36
mn = 697
mia = 241
mib = 450
mic = 499
mid = 132
msjc = 18
musimage = 698
newsassn = 110
nmtrip = 12
adv = 10
apprais = 144
book = 56
miscellaneous subtotal = 4,593
Image total = 24,282
Grand total of text and image files = 34,318
A word about AI...
Historically, search engine activity has been the largest driver of access to our site's contents. Because of the way search algorithms work, our page files often aren't included in the first or second page of search results, even though our content's quality often surpasses that served up by the algorithms. There are exceptions. Some of our Topics in American Art like California Art Historyare often listed on the first page of search results. Commercial organizations and large institutions spend vast sums on SEO to drive inquiries to their sites. We don't.
Here's where AI changes the game and amplifies the value of our content. AI large language models probably scrape the entire contents of our Free Online Digital Library. Our hundreds of thousands of words are sliced and diced into a stew that's reformulated into answers to AI users' prompts. We've played with prompts limited to our content. The results are often pretty good. Other prompts allow use of the entire sea of data besides ours accessed from the internet.
The public education element of our mission - via our site's contents - isn't constrained any more by search engines. It's reborn into endless results of AI prompts. We aren't getting credited for our data, so its quality can't be measured. That problem, along with copyright issues, is serious. However, the public benefit of the AI output is vast. Clever people can ask large language models to limit prompt results to our website, but even then we suspect they leak snippets from their ocean of data when answering prompts.
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