27-08-2016, 01:51 PM
Quote:I've been to the institution about two years ago, here in NL, that has the tax money for preservation of our national language and history.
I asked them, why is it so hard to find a digital exact original version of some of the most important people of our nation? Vondel poems and letters from Willem van Oranje ?
Eh, we don't know. She said. Didn't think about the "public" before she replied. She was in charge of the operational affairs concerning such manuscripts.
I was there to propose to make a tool where everybody can see the manuscripts, but also can edit and comment. They did not like somebody else "outside the community" working on such a tool. Also then there first have to be written a project plan, etc. etc. At the end the conclusion was: if I want to improve the manuscript culture, I will have to do the work, myself. Unpaid. So, i just made a simple tool for myself. That's it.
Haha, this seems to be all the same in any country
Quote:In medieval times, they wanted to keep the people stupid. Because that gave them more power.
The concept of power did not change much from the medieval times, and even from the antiquity. But the cases that you describe like staff not answering emails just shows that people are not much interested in their own work. Like they are not enthusiasts.
Enthusiasm is a great thing and much great input to the development of humanity has been done free of charge.
But I'm afraid the thread wanders offtopic a bit
