User:Cristinac/Comparisons
How do online libraries that provide free access distinguish themselves from each other?
Is the PDF that one downloads from aaaaarg different from a PDF that one downloads from Monoskop? Here I am looking at what the possible similarities and differences are between four resources: aaaaarg, Monoskop, Public Library and textz.com.
| aaaaarg.fail | Monoskop | Public Library | textz.com |
| it requires an account to download texts | the possibility for an account exists, but it isn't required | the possibility for an account exists, but it isn't required | it doesn't require an account, however, the collection has a password |
| it has multiple contributors | it has multiple, but few contributors | it has multiple contributors that are also identifiable | it is not possible to contribute to the collection anymore |
| self described as: a conversation platform, or alternatively, a school, reading group or journal | self described as: a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities | self described as: a collection of collections | self described as: a warez database for texts |
| created by Sean Dockray: an artist, a founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and Aaaarg.org | created by Dušan Barok: an artist, writer and cultural activist involved in critical practise in the fields of software, art, and theory | created by Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak: Marcell-a free software advocate, cultural explorer, and social instigator; Tomislav- a philosopher, a free software and free culture advocate and the project lead of Croatian Creative Commons team | created by Sebastian Lütgert: a writer, programmer, media artist and activist |
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