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UDC 681.324:82(497.4)
Andrej Flogie
Introductory speech
The modern development to our information society is an objective fact
and it is pointless to reject digital technology. But potentially there are very
different pathways and, just as in the development to an industrial society, side
paths and fatal mistakes are possible. With regard to contemporary creativity
we must encourage the use of multi-presentation and understand crossing over
the border of traditional types of creation. Along with taking foreign examples
into account, we must bring together what are at present very fragmented
initiatives and projects for digitalizing the Slovene cultural heritage.
UDC 004: 681.324: 929 Trubar P.
Miran Hladnik
Trubar and the internet
There is hardly even a small sample of Primož Trubar’s opus available in
publicly accessible digital form. The collection of Slovene literary texts contains
Tiga Noviga testamenta ena dolga predguvor of 1557 (http://lit.ijs.si/trubar57.html);
the trancription was made by the German Slavicist Elisabeth Seitz in Tübingen
in 1998. The entry on Trubar for the Slovene Wikipedia was not written by any
notable Slovene Slovenicist. Both these facts indicate that we lag behind in
using the internet. Trubar was very much aware of his precedence and author-
ship and was proud of this. But appearing on the internet introduces a new
and different concept of authorship. Since there is no exclusive authority, there
is not only one exclusive truth either, thus Wikipedia headwords can quite freely
include different perspectives on one subject. Admirers of book culture are
disturbed by the Wikipedia inclination to link together alternative definitions
and the absence of value judgments. The question arises: How far can Trubar’s
experience help us in the change of the civilizational paradigm which we are
witnessing? Actually only two of Trubar’s features seem useful and indeed
highly important: openness for a fresh and uncluttered consideration of our
own place in culture and the courage to set out on a new, unused and uncertain
pathway.
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UDC 681.324:82(497.4)
Andrej Flogie
Introductory speech
The modern development to our information society is an objective fact
and it is pointless to reject digital technology. But potentially there are very
different pathways and, just as in the development to an industrial society, side
paths and fatal mistakes are possible. With regard to contemporary creativity
we must encourage the use of multi-presentation and understand crossing over
the border of traditional types of creation. Along with taking foreign examples
into account, we must bring together what are at present very fragmented
initiatives and projects for digitalizing the Slovene cultural heritage.
UDC 004: 681.324: 929 Trubar P.
Miran Hladnik
Trubar and the internet
There is hardly even a small sample of Primož Trubar’s opus available in
publicly accessible digital form. The collection of Slovene literary texts contains
Tiga Noviga testamenta ena dolga predguvor of 1557 (http://lit.ijs.si/trubar57.html);
the trancription was made by the German Slavicist Elisabeth Seitz in Tübingen
in 1998. The entry on Trubar for the Slovene Wikipedia was not written by any
notable Slovene Slovenicist. Both these facts indicate that we lag behind in
using the internet. Trubar was very much aware of his precedence and author-
ship and was proud of this. But appearing on the internet introduces a new
and different concept of authorship. Since there is no exclusive authority, there
is not only one exclusive truth either, thus Wikipedia headwords can quite freely
include different perspectives on one subject. Admirers of book culture are
disturbed by the Wikipedia inclination to link together alternative definitions
and the absence of value judgments. The question arises: How far can Trubar’s
experience help us in the change of the civilizational paradigm which we are
witnessing? Actually only two of Trubar’s features seem useful and indeed
highly important: openness for a fresh and uncluttered consideration of our
own place in culture and the courage to set out on a new, unused and uncertain
pathway.
331
