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the discourse of the subalterns, of local languages, of local content production and
of dialog. Nevertheless it seemed interesting to explore real possibilities for this
enterprise as we have reached the bottom line of the politically correct discourse
and found nothing concrete. It is a dead end for the project as conceived, but an
interesting starting point for reflexion and for finding the right partners.
Therefore with patience and without funding, I have consulted UNESCO
about possibilities to work with this network under such conditions, and the
suggestion was to work with the Greenstone digital library project . And we developed the following idea.
4. Digital Polyphonic Library: Open Proposal
The notion of democratic access to information in this project will be developed
through the creation and diffusion of local content in local languages. The
idea is that speaking subjects experience their speaking capabilities through
a variety of repertoires of linguistic character that exist simultaneously and in
a gradual manner, without necessarily the presence of linguistic frontiers well
delimited and well defined. The objective of a polyphonic digital library is to
create a polyphonic knowledge data base that permits the comprehension and
an integrated digital experience of this myriad of repertoires and to facilitate
the navigation among them. This digital polyphonic library therefore is not
centered in a mere translation process or in the transportation of knowledge
from one language to another, but in an imaginary web of knowledge in
which many linguistics repertoires are imbricated. This web finds its possible
actualization in a digital polyphonic platform that permits the presence and
the simultaneity of various phonies to be serialized, sequencialized, and shown
in multilateral relations that do not affect their individuality.
Before colonial era and the expansion of Europe in the world, the majority of
populations lived in phonic regimes – speaking praxis, and sometimes, writing
praxis – that were not based on the idea of languages as well determined totalities
belonging to a specific territory (with its specific speaking population). Our
point here is that the majority of people had an open linguistic repertoire, with
internal and gradual differences, using them in different contexts and different
goals, as well as linguistic formulas and vocabularies, that today are perceived
as belonging to many languages.
The idea of this polyphonic knowledge base has the following criteria:
• To promote in its various aspects the permeability among many
repertoires;
• Consider computational system and its users intrinsically polyphonous;
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