Open Source Biblical Studies (follow up) ::

There has been an encouraging response already to talk of open source biblical studies: comments to my post below by James Tauber, AKMA, and Peter Kirby, (my post responded to AKMA's "Prior Art") and a post by Mark G "Sansblogue on Open Source Online Biblical Studies". Maybe, at last, this is an approach that's ready to fly!

Mark asks that: "Tim (and perhaps AKMA too?) hone precisely what the goal(s) are here". For me the goals would be:

• to identify projects that are underway
• to identify what they need to really take off
• to see if there are possibilities to rationalise, share or collaborate so that efforts are less dispersed
• perhaps begin to identify priorities
• and so, by focusing, to try to get some worthwhile projects really moving

At the very least to publicise what is being proposed/tried so that others do not try inventing triangular wheels like the one I have been developing since 1992...

I think that AKMA identifies the biggest problem we all face: time (or the money to pay for it), but I also think that this problem is compounded by having so many projects that (whether we intend it or not) compete for time, money and energy...

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¶ 6:26 PM [to Del.icio.us]

I've commented further on this here.

By  Peter Kirby, at August 6, 2005 9:49 PM  

Tim, I think that this concept can (and should) be extended to the task of Bible translation, as I have just blogged, stimulated by ideas from you, Mark Goodacre, Peter Kirby, and others.

By  Wayne Leman, at August 7, 2005 11:14 AM  

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