Do you remove links from materials that you quote?
I ask because of the following example:
The research, led by Alexei Efros, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, will be presented today (Thursday, Aug. 14) at the International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, or SIGGRAPH, in Vancouver, Canada.
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“Visual data is among the biggest of Big Data,” said Efros, who is also a member of the UC Berkeley Visual Computing Lab. “We have this enormous collection of images on the Web, but much of it remains unseen by humans because it is so vast. People have called it the dark matter of the Internet. We wanted to figure out a way to quickly visualize this data by systematically ‘averaging’ the images.”
Which is a quote from: New tool makes a single picture worth a thousand – and more – images by Sarah Yang.
Those passages were reprinted by Science Daily reading:
The research, led by Alexei Efros, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, was presented Aug. 14 at the International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, or SIGGRAPH, in Vancouver, Canada.
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“Visual data is among the biggest of Big Data,” said Efros, who is also a member of the UC Berkeley Visual Computing Lab. “We have this enormous collection of images on the Web, but much of it remains unseen by humans because it is so vast. People have called it the dark matter of the Internet. We wanted to figure out a way to quickly visualize this data by systematically ‘averaging’ the images.”
Why leave out the hyperlinks for SIGGRAPH and the Visual Computing Laboratory?
Or for that matter, the link to the original paper: AverageExplorer: Interactive Exploration and Alignment of Visual Data Collections (ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH paper, August 2014) which appeared in the news release.
All three hyperlinks enhance your ability to navigate to more information. Isn’t navigation to more information a prime function of the WWW?
If so, we need to clue ScienceDaily and other content repackagers to include hyperlinks passed onto them, at least.
If you can’t be a value-add, at least don’t be a value-loss conduit.