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The continuing of library resources ... a whole bunch of items are popping up classified as "history of " that manifestly are NOT. This is from EBSCO's Academic Search Premier.

I think it's because some articles use "map"/"mapping"/"cartography" in a metaphorical manner ... ho hum

@mhedney

Who's doing the classification? Is there increased reliance on computer sorting without a human asking "does this make sense?"

Matthew Edney

@christinkallama tbh I cannot see how a human reading this title, plus abstract, would consider this essay as a work in “HISTORY of cartography” or also the subject term of “Geophysical surveying…” a couple of lines below. Note that both subject terms are in the style and section of metadata indicating that they were added by EBSCO’s systems (author-supplied keywords are listed separately).