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On 27/06/12 15:34, James Simmons wrote:
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cite="mid:CAN6VRWwCPg1AfQ=6VG5Kmh74tYujf=w5D=U2P3aTiVL8ErFNig@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">For the Spanish translation of <i>Make Your Own Sugar
Activities!</i> each translator was assigned chapters and was
given credit in a footnote for that chapter.<br>
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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!<br>
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/booktypeatucl/">http://blog.booki.cc/2012/06/booktypeatucl/</a><br>
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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. <br>
There are some interesting comments on the link below too. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674307607/ref=pd_cp_b_0">http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674307607/ref=pd_cp_b_0</a>
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"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 <i>as</i>
history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the
progress of knowledge in written form.
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<p> 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.<br>
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