Dear Terry,
Hmmmmm…. I stand (partially) corrected.
Reviewing your lists, there are some nuances and clarifications needed. Chuck has been writing about thematic bibliographies for different fields of design research. His criteria seem to be that they must be relevant and freely accessible to the field. While Chuck has not been writing about annotated bibliographies, I'd agree with you they qualify if they are appropriate to the field and freely accessible. Many of the items you list are books for sale, not freely accessible bibliographies. What Chuck has been writing about are thematic bibliographies of the kind that Bailey created for digital publishing.
These bibliographies must be appropriate. Not all of the titles you located are appropriate to the themes of design and design research. Many bibliographies with the word "design" in the title are not about design as Chuck intends it for the field of design research. Your search of the net and the Stanford library turned up quite a few false positives, f.ex., "Single Subject Research Design for the Medical Profession" or "Writing-Intensive Course Design." The annotated bibliography on pioneers of landscape design might or might not be relevant — it is certainly of use in design history, but it may or may not be of use in design.
There is also a bit of confusion on your bibliographies. They seem to be a bibliographic reference list, but the items are not annotated. An annotated bibliography carries a note on each item in the bibliography describing what it is and — implicitly — how it relates to the thematic subject in the title.
You are right to say that there may be more out there than we know about. This thread has been running for quite some time, and no one yet has done a deep search to see what is 1) completed, 2) relevant, 3) available, 4) freely accessible. On those criteria, I find far less than you do. I know of a great many bibliographic resources that can serve design research. In an early note, for example, I mentioned ArtBibliographies Modern. This is a fully searchable reference work on art and design with good annotations going back nearly three decades now. But you need a subscription, so it does not qualify despite the fact that it is completed, relevant, and available.
If you or someone were willing to do a search to identify sources that meet Chuck's criteria and post it, this would be a great service to the field. The material must be 1) completed, 2) relevant, 3) available, 4) freely accessible. The majority of items in your recent post don't meet all four criteria.
Yours,
Ken
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