[Foundation-l] Free edition of Norways national encyklopedia Store Norske Leksikon

John at Darkstar vacuum at jeb.no
Thu Feb 26 15:12:33 UTC 2009


Well, quite a number of people (including me) do not agree with you on
that point.

Gerard Meijssen skrev:
> Hoi,
> Due credit is given. It is given to the extend that the amount of attention
> and detail is unparalleled.
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
> 
> 2009/2/26 John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no>
> 
>> Adding authors, even if they write under pseudonyms, gives due credit as
>> described in the copyright laws of several countries and also gives
>> those persons added cultural capital. I guess someone can elaborate
>> about how cultural capital and economic capital can be traded, and how
>> this can offset the situation whereby one encyclopedia can pay its
>> authors while an other can't. Or in fact, one of the encyclopedias both
>> pays the authors and gives attributes them for the work they do.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Gerard Meijssen skrev:
>>> Hoi,
>>> Ok let me rephrase my question, what would the benefit be to the reader ?
>> In
>>> my opinion there is no benefit. The fact that this information can be
>> found
>>> in the history data is sufficient. There is no obvious way who to include
>>> and why. For instance there are some who do not rate the person who
>> includes
>>> an illustration while the person who created the illustration is
>>> considered.. Really, you open a can of wurms and there is no clear and
>>> obvious benefit.
>>> Thanks,
>>>       GerardM
>>>
>>> 2009/2/26 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>>>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>> What would you achieve by doing that and, what would it mean for our
>> down
>>>>> stream users ? In my opinion this is not where we want to go at all.
>>>> What it would achieve is that the reader has more of an idea who wrote
>>>> what he is reading. The consequence for our downstream users seems
>>>> little - depending on the exact form we use it is nothing, something
>>>> extra to include or something extra to decide on whether to include or
>>>> not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
>>>>
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