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

Thu Feb 26 14:10:32 UTC 2009

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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