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[Mick Fuzz]

On 27/06/12 15:34, James Simmons wrote:
> For the Spanish translation of /Make Your Own Sugar Activities!/ each
> translator was assigned chapters and was given credit in a footnote
> for that chapter.

Footnotes are, I guess, a key tool for meaningful credit in a new world
full of rampant remixing and re-use. New technology using old solutions!

This topic came up in a Book Type workshop that Adam and Source Fabric
asked me to do at UCL (University College London) last week. I've done a
short blog post on it http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/booktypeatucl/

One of academic staff in the workshop was a historian and as we talked
about different cultures of attibution drew our attention to this book
by Anthony Grafton, The Footnote : a curious history.
There are some interesting comments on the link below too.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674307607/ref=pd_cp_b_0


"The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of
the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the
minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource,
with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of
modern scholarship. In Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes
to history give way to footnotes /as/ history, recounting in their
subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.

Grafton treats the development of the footnote--the one form of proof
normally supplied by historians in support of their assertions--as
writers on science have long treated the development of laboratory
equipment, statistical arguments, and reports on experiments: as a
complex story, rich in human interest, that sheds light on the status of
history as art, as science, and as an institution. The book starts in
the Berlin of the brilliant nineteenth-century historian Leopold von
Ranke, who is often credited with inventing documented history in its
modern form. Casting back to antiquity and forward to the twentieth
century, Grafton's investigation exposes Ranke's position as a far more
ambiguous one and offers us a rich vision of the true origins and
gradual triumph of the footnote.


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