[open-humanities] Fwd: [Open-access] Hello from the Logic Museum

Fri Jun 6 10:30:03 UTC 2014

Hi Everyone,

The message below was posted on the Open Access Mailing list but it seems
like it might be of interest to people on this list as well.

All the best,
Katelyn

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From: edward <edward at logicmuseum.com>
Date: 5 June 2014 19:39
Subject: [Open-access] Hello from the Logic Museum
To: open-access at lists.okfn.org

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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