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Coomb t1_j8o2kp7 wrote

Reply to comment by fabulousrice in New study examines Leonardo da Vinci's experiments on gravity by Rear-gunner

As far as I know, those websites don't offer a service where you just give them a manuscript and they do the work of digitizing it and/or translating it. And if they did, I doubt anybody would use it for important texts like this codex. Digitization and translation are significant expenses.

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fabulousrice t1_j8o3sc7 wrote

That’s literally what they do. The most important public domain texts in History are hosted there for anyone to access them freely (which is what the Internet should be…)

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Coomb t1_j8ofl5h wrote

Hosting digital versions of things isn't the same as digitizing and/or translating them.

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fabulousrice t1_j8opxcn wrote

But that’s how it starts. Once something is hosted, people have access to it and can work on translating it collaboratively. If 100% of all medical research was posted online and easily accessible, language barrier would not be as much of an issue as you think

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Gonergonegone t1_j8ozbb5 wrote

They aren't talking about the language barrier. They're saying the people that originally translate and digitize it (which takes a lot of time and effort), they deserve to be paid.

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CoderDispose t1_j8prgu9 wrote

I wonder if future generations of chat AI bots will help with this.

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poonmaster64 t1_j9j9fnv wrote

This is kind of a terrifying idea in my opinion, current ai will create fake sources for information and convince itself that they’re legitimate, even with a lot of advances I don’t think I’ll ever want to trust ai to digitize, translate or compile information

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