[SLLS] Rescue campaign for the International Bibliography of Sign Language

[Natasha Abner]

Could we consider doing something akin to lingbuzz or semantics archive, so
that researchers have access to the actual research work in addition to
bibliographic information? - Natasha

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Trevor Jenkins <
trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com> wrote:

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> On 7 May 2011, at 00:08, Terry Janzen wrote:
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> Elitist? Maintaining and updating such a massive bibliography takes an
> incredible number of hours of work. That costs somebody. ...
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> There's an analogy with software development here. The big corporations
> spend huge amounts of money creating software products. Then there are the
> open source teams creating excellent software for free --- for example, the
> Linux and *BSD operating systems, the Apache web server and its adjunct
> projects, the OpenOffice.org (and its recent fork as LibreOffice when
> commercial interests wanted to control the freely given time by the
> developers) office product suite, the MySql and PostGres and SQLite database
> systems, the ruby and python and perl and other programming languages, and
> the ELAN video annotation system is released under the GNU Public Licence.
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> Sure there's a cost to compiling a bibliography. Just as there is with the
> development of those major software products. However, it's whether the cost
> is bourne by those doing the work, or those who use the work or whether time
> is given freely and altruistically.
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> I think Bencie’s proposal is at least worth some discussion. I think many
> people could convince their libraries to subscribe, so it might just
> work....
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> My point is that for jobbing interpreters and trainees they are themselves
> their libraries.
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> It’s been great to have the bibliography for free all this time, but I’m
> not surprised in the slightest that the time has come to think about its
> worth, and alternatives for maintaining it. Would a publisher be interested
> in picking it up, by chance? For example, Mouton de Gruyter? They are moving
> to a lot of online services. But of course, if so, that wouldn’t happen
> without a subscription fee.
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> Or copy the existing bibliography to Zotero and making compilation a
> collaborative activity. Payment becoming "use it? update it!"
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> Regards, Trevor.
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> <>< Re: deemed!
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