[Open-access] Hello from the Logic Museum

Thu Jun 5 20:28:39 UTC 2014

Hi Edward,

That's a really fascinating project.

You might also want to check out the Open Humanities working group,
http://humanities.okfn.org/ as folks there are often thinking about texts,
annotation, and exegesis etc.

Best regards,

Laura

On 5 June 2014 19:39, edward <edward at logicmuseum.com> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I curate the Logic Museum, which you can find here
> http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Main_Page .  The mission statement here
> http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/The_Logic_Museum:What_is_the_Logic_Museum
> pretty much says what it is about, namely providing source material on
> medieval logic, philosophy and theology in the original language (Latin),
> together with translations into English and (where time allows) summaries
> of what the text means.
>
> Sample: http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Authors/Aristotle/
> perihermenias#bk17a10, (Aristotle's De interpretatione Bekker page 17
> column 'a' line 10).
>
> The material is mostly old editions of the primary text, and out of
> copyright translations. However I am working on new material. Here
> http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Authors/Duns_Scotus/Ordinatio/Ordinatio_I/
> Prologus/P4Q1 Peter Simpson's translation of Duns Scotus' master work,
> the _Ordinatio_.
>
> I would also like to produce an edition from digitised manuscripts such as
> this http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/File:Worcester_13_32vb_
> sensu_compositionis.jpg, using commons-based production techniques.
> Unfortunately few manuscripts are available online. The image I just linked
> to is from a copy that I own, but I only have the right to my own use. I
> asked the library if I could make the whole ms available online at a lower
> resolution but they declined. Currently, editions are produced by very
> small teams of scholars working with traditional materials and traditional
> techniques.  (For example, the method of indicating variants in the reading
> for different manuscripts dates back to the middle of the 19C).
>
> I'm interested in the problem of attracting specialists to work on 'open
> source' and open access projects and would be interested in hearing from
> other members of this group.
>
> For what it's worth, a book of mine will be coming out this September
> published in the 'traditional' way by a university press, with proof
> readers and peer reviewers and so on.  If I ask myself why I did that
> rather than publish the same thing in the Logic Museum in a fully Google
> searchable format and with anchors and links to other medieval texts, I
> have to say that it is more prestigious to have it in book format.  If you
> say you have a website and you published something on it, people say 'oh
> right'. If by contrast the very same work has been published in printed
> format by a publishing house, you can sense the waves of respect.  I wonder
> if there is any way around that problem.
>
> Edward Buckner,
> London
>
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