miss.gunst on Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:15:39 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [oldboys] post very cyber fem conf idems |
ahoi nathalie & all, > next step (among many other) is the idea of a shared data base, > mirored on several women's run servers, each doing their own > interface. this was what laurence offered, wasn't it? was there already a prefigured format (in terms of an existing mask for data entry) or would it make sense to collect & discuss about what we wish the database should contain etc? btw: what about some kind of collective collection of ideas/wishes/needs concerning cyberfeminist networking - including ideas possible collaborations between the initiatives, collective as well as individual - as being discussed in the framework of vci (or not being discussed and therefore maybe missed) and/or inspired by vci (and be it by the way of what was felt as lacking)? i.e., nathalie, I remember we were also talking about text accessability and exchannge; and laurence was mentioning the difficulties to get french translations. indeed, I'd imagine this would be another interesting and important area for collaborative efforts. together with our old boys homepage relaunch, we already started to collect texts (doc/rtf, pdf and html format) to make them accessible in the reading room, but this project is just in its beginnings. what we were and still are looking for are the real texts; in case something is already online, this is fine (we also collect txtlinx) - however, for several reasons many texts are vanishing after a while, so it makes sense to create an archive for the data as well. however, I think it would perfectly make sense to circulate another call for text collection not only via this list, but also to other lists/circles one has access to, so we really could create one archive with texts in any language (english, french, spain, dutch, italian, german, russian and so on...). why not simply continue with the obn reading room? well: if one thinks about a collective text dept., an alphabetical list like the one we started on the obn.org site won't help thus far. here as well a retrievable database would be needed; and if we think seriously about diversity in languages, apart from full text search also some kind of keyword search would be needed (and this keyword table should be multilingual, too - which would be not so much a technical problem, but a question of who is taking care of keywords and keyword translations). I really would like this idea of an txt archive of cyberfeminist diversity, may be even a (cyber)feminist gnutenberg project. it could also be combined with the idea of the personal data-base as well, as of cause this effort would really need international collaboration, hence people engaged might well be the same who'd offer and/or need proof-reading, translation etc but this is just one possible idea, curious about others (and hopefully also about comments on this one): verena ** distributed via <oldboys list>: no commercial use without permission ** <oldboys list> is an unmoderated mailing list for global cyberfeminism ** to remove your address from the list, send a message to: <oldboys-unsubscribe-xy=domain.topleveldomain@lists.ccc.de> ** more info: send mail to: oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de> ** archive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys ** contact: oldboys-owner@lists.ccc.de ** www.obn.org