--- Andy Powell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for some really interesting points...
>
...
> I suspect that it's not just a media/mechanics-related issue is it?
> Commenting on someone else's "quickly-written reminiscence" (though
> I
> bet they are not quickly written at all! :-) ) is peer-to-peer
> whereas
> commenting to "highly-edited oral history audio clip" is more like
> amature-to-professional or student-to-teacher.
>
> Andy
> --
> Head of Development, Eduserv Foundation
I wonder. From working with local history people on previous
projects, I have noticed that the type of people involved varies
widely, from raw beginners, to people with scant formal education but
who have spent a lifetime using their spare time to study and
research local history, to fully-educated and experienced
professionals. The current project upon which I work is more subject
than geographically-based and involves volunteers who are just as
likely to be involved professionally in the subject as not, and we
have made a conscious decision not to use the term "amateur" as a
synonym for "volunteer" or "contributor."
It certainly provides more interesting challenges to try to provide
high quality web content that involves a larger number of people from
a wide range of backgrounds than working with a very small number of
paid professionals within one institution or organisation with whom
one can meet face-to-face.
Janet
Janet E. Davis
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