Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Exciting times

On Wikimania Jimbo Wales said that lexicological content ought to be free. When this happens all kind of things start to become possible. Logos is about to make a lot of their content available under the GFDL. Their content has long been freely available, now they are going to license it.

The great thing is that is allows for among other things, the use of this content for teaching languages. Consider, when you create a language excercise you need words to select. When these words are available in an electronic resource, you can make selections including particular vocabulary related to specific subject matter.

For the provider and the user of the Free content / Free education, it is a win-win situation. Both need ample data and with more eyes looking at content and structure, the data can only improve in quantity and quality.

The good news is all of this is happening.

Thanks,
GerardM

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