#infodata

I keep seeing posts on here like 'wow I never knew how much info there isn't on the internet' or 'it's scary how much of our information isn't digitized' and a) you're probably wrong about that first part and b) with 'on the internet', they mean 'accessible via google/bing/duckduckgo' and I need people to understand that when information professionals talk about 'the internet' being humanities most ambitious data sharing project or how much scientific info there is to be found 'on the internet', we are talking about the other 80%ish of it. The vast majority of information on the internet will not be found by google because it's in unindexed, specialized, often not freely accessible databases. Like, when you google something, and get a jstore result, and you click over to jstore, a lot of you seem to think you're going Real Deep rn, but actually you are stepping off the stairs at the shallow end of the Olympic swimming pool onto the very first patch of the actual tiles of the pool floor, your hands still firmly on the railing.