[Corpora-List] SourceForge as a corpus distribution/storage/archiving/versioning mechanism (was: Re: Building corpora)

[Kevin B. Cohen]

On Jan 24, 2008 3:46 AM, Martin Wynne <martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> - making the corpus available, and continuing support for its storage,
> use and licensing
> - long-term archiving and preservation

Martin was right to include these.  They are the only part of the list
where I'm not pessimistic.  Lately the Biomedical Text Mining Group at
the University of Colorado School of Medicine has experimented with
using SourceForge as a distribution mechanism.  So far, no problems.

A non-rhetorical question: if there are people on this list from the
LDC who think that SourceForge is a bad idea, I would be interested in
hearing the counter-arguments.  Note also that SourceForge has more to
do with long-term archiving and preservation and with making the
corpus available than it does with continuing support, per se.

Kev
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K. B. Cohen
Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead
Center for Computational Pharmacology
303-916-2417 (cell) 303-377-9194 (home)
http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter_lab/Cohen

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