Hi Henry:
I think one can find all kinds of engagement (or not) with open-source
approaches across the digital humanities. Some projects start with open
development from the beginning (our http://pleiades.stoa.org project is
one example), others only move in this direction after an early
prototyping phase (e.g., http://papyri.info). Some remain closed.
Certainly I think that the number of projects that start life as
open-source is growing.
Does this help?
Tom
On 2/27/12 6:21 AM, Henry Francis Lynam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A question for the group. In general, are projects in Digital Humanities
> open source? When I say open source, I mean are they open source from
> inception where they actively encourage contributions from the wider
> community of programmers and host their evolving source code on public
> repositories? I know that certain projects ultimately make their code
> and texts available but this is a different type of open source.
>
> If they are not open source, is this because of intellectual property
> reasons or is it one of quality control? I would have thought that there
> is a wide pool of programming talent who could be attracted to open
> source projects even if they do not have classical training. Of course,
> an open source model does not in any way suggest a free for all and can
> still maintain the strictest levels of quality control (e.g. consider
> the Linux kernel).
>
> What got me thinking about this is whether there are alternative ways of
> contributing to digital humanities without proceeding down the
> conventional academic route.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Henry.
>
> Henry Lynam,
> Trinity College Dublin.
>
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