Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 325.
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[1] From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu> (25)
Subject: Re: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities?
[2] From: "Joris van.Zundert" (9)
<Joris.van.Zundert@niwi.knaw.nl>
Subject: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities?
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:19:44 +0100
From: Ross Scaife <scaife@uky.edu>
Subject: Re: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities?
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 01:34 AM, Alexandre Enkerli wrote:
>The academic community seems to be full of projects and ideas for opening
>up academic content with things like the Open Access > Initiative
><http://www.soros.org/openaccess/>, the Open Knowledge Initiative
><http://web.mit.edu/oki/>, MIT's Open Courseware <http://ocw.mit.edu/>, the
>Open Textbook Project <http://otp.inlimine.org/>, and the PLoS
><http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/>.
>But Humanities seem to be underrepresented in most of these projects. I'm
>sure there's a lot of projects going on to open humanistic content but is
>there something that has really taken off already?
I agree that humanists seem to be slow in jumping aboard this train, though
a philosopher is running what is AFAIK the most important blog about the
Open Access movement (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
). In some cases part of the problem may be that e-materials in existing
projects were acquired and/or built up in days before the importance of
this issue was clear, making it harder (though not necessarily impossible)
to apply the formal license retroactively.
Two positive examples in Classics come to mind:
Leeds International Classical Studies (a journal)
http://www.doaj.org/alpha/L/link10171.tkl
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy (Chris Blackwell)
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home
"The contents of the articles in Dēmos are licensed under a Creative
Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-1.0). The scripts
that drive the site are licensed under a Creative Commons License
(NonCommercial-1.0)."
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:22:13 +0100
From: "Joris van.Zundert" <Joris.van.Zundert@niwi.knaw.nl>
Subject: 17.322 "open content" in the humanities?
It may be that the humanities are only just starting up. For the Dutch
situation I can point you to some interesting projects:
<http://www.igitur.nl/en/default.htm>http://www.igitur.nl/en/default.htm
(see especially
<http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?mission>http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?mission
and
<http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?benefits>http://www.igitur.nl/en/frames.html?benefits),
<http://www.roquade.nl>http://www.roquade.nl and
<http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon>http://www.i-tor.org/en/toon. But there must
be more examples out there, must there?
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