AsafBartovTEI2011

Asaf Bartov

About me

I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. In the past, have consulted for the National Library of Israel. I run a hebrew public domain text repository (resembling Project Gutenberg). I am a trained software developer, and enjoy hacking on free and open source software.

Affiliation

Wikimedia Foundation; Project Ben-Yehuda

I can represent:

• non-scholarly textual repositories and amateur digital libraries
• Wikipedia
• open source developers interested in developing and sharing tools

Your Pitch

Interoperability should mean: maximal adherence to the ideal of total accessibility of data. Total accessibility means:

• accessible in a variety of channels
• accessible in a variety of protocols
• accessible by a variety of users (including "random", unaffiliated users)
• available for unanticipated [re-]use
• accessible in small chunks (allow re-use of just one element/section)
• tools are made available for re-use and improvement/extension by other practitioners.
• collaboration with amateur and non-scholarly partners is welcome and appreciated. (e.g. Wikipedia, mass transcription communities, LibraryThing, Open Library, etc.)

It is understood that not all projects/groups can adhere to this ideal totally -- there are institutional, legal, and monetary concerns that may get in the way.