At 03:34 PM 6/19/2007, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hmm. Sounds like a Wikimania workshop to me, and/or a series of workshops online. Perhaps a wider support network being built between those with access to resources and those without, or some research done into what editors really *need* to source comprehensively (access? training? motivation through policy or culture? all of this?) ... The problem is a big one, with differences and subtleties depending on the article topic and the language of research, and our sourcing troubles won't be easily solved by either a "let's delete it all tomorrow" or a "let's let it all sit around" approach -- I think it's pretty clear that neither entirely works.
Yes, I have been to workshops like this offered by libraries, and I was underimpressed. Most of the advice simply did not apply to my discipline. One of the most important parts of sourcing is figuring out which sources are good (or, given two source, which is better?), and that depends a lot on each area.
Chris