Within the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages, we needed to tackle the questions on copyrights too. As there were no preceding models on how to deal with them, we needed to create new practices here. The Executive Director of National Library Resource, Mr. Oleg Makhno, highlights in his blog entry how the copyrights were taken into consideration, without using the sword to solve the problem.
Jack Rueter is not only a linguist, but also the primus motor of our project. During the past months, we at the National Library of Finland have been really lucky to work with him and create a collegial relationship with him. If I’d be a super hero, I’d like to take his enthusiasm as one of my extraordinary skills. In this blog entry, Jack reveals what material and why it was chosen to be digitized within this project.
The National Library of Finland is delighted to invite you to join the kick-off event, where the digital Fenno-Ugrica collection and its research application for editing the OCR text will be released for the public. The event will take place at the Auditorium of the National Library of Finland on Thursday, the 6th of June at 14:30 (2:30 pm). Entrance to the Auditorium from Yliopistonkatu.
The event will be given in Finnish. Enrolling by e-mail (kk-fennougrica@helsinki.fi) until the 30th of May 2013.
Whether the spring has really arrived or not, is a matter of debating, but we have done some serious work during these long winter months in order to meet the key objectives of our project. Here’s a brief update on some of the aspects in our pioneering work.
The other day, my colleagues put me to the test and they started to put pressure on me with various questions related to my intentions to set up a blog for our digitization project. They kept on asking, whether I really had considered the scope of the blog? They wanted to know who would be the audience and who would produce the entries? Or, will the messages be aligned with the communication plan of the native organization etc.? And some have frankly asked whether this was going be just another dull blog for another dull project? I have to admit their scepticism was more than justified, but I am tempted to go against all the odds and shout: NAY, we gotta think differently this time!