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<br><div><div>On 7 May 2011, at 00:08, Terry Janzen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Elitist? Maintaining and updating such a massive bibliography takes an incredible number of hours of work. That costs somebody. ...</span></font></blockquote><div><br></div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">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....</span></font></blockquote><div><br></div>My point is that for jobbing interpreters and trainees they are themselves their libraries. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Verdana">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. </font></blockquote></div></div><div><br></div>Or copy the existing bibliography to Zotero and making compilation a collaborative activity. Payment becoming "use it? update it!"<div><br><div> <div>Regards, Trevor.</div><div><br></div><div><>< Re: deemed!</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>