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

[Trevor Jenkins]

Interesting I thought that a decision had been made by the university  
hosting the bibliography.  I received an email about it from their  
librarian nearly a week ago.

On 16 May 2011, at 23:56, Natasha Abner wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>> 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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