Hi Rob, I agree; on the other hand I had, at one point, to make a list of artists myself (before the Internet) for teaching purposes, and it was just as frustrating, just not as centralized - Alan
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Rob Myers wrote: > On 02/09/13 11:11 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: >> >> >> It seems to me this is no different than what occurs in any communality; >> there are always debates about who is an artist, what art is, etc., and >> Wikipedia just reflects that. And in fact because it mostly excludes so- >> called regional artists, it's not much use in this kind of thinking. I >> must be missing something, but the problem seems to be the kind of >> discourse that's always gone on within and without the arts - Alan > > What made this different for me is: > > * I'd spent several frustrating hours trying to get a list of artists > from Wikipedia via DBPedia, and I kept getting books and clock making > companies in the list. > > * With Wikipedia the process is less familiar, and the structures more > explicit, so it is more obvious and easier to investigate. > > * Wikipedia is often presented as a postmodern model of knowledge, this > showed that it has some very modernist hangovers. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/sd.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
