Dear Ken,
You say for your proposal that
"... [The] Technical performance criteria are that the
project must be 1) completed, 2) available, 3) freely
accessible via open access, 4) fully functional within
determined limits. Discipline-related quality criteria are
that project contents must be 5) relevant, 6) selective, 7)
useful and 8) high quality. ..."
I agree with all of these, and I know you probably don't mean
the order to have any significance here, but it might be read
this way.
So, I would, urge you to put "high quality" (8) at number one!
Without this, the rest aren't needed, and it'd be a waste of
time trying to satisfy them without this one known to be
satisfied.
I'd like to ask how is this high quality to be achieved. It's
a criteria that nobody disagrees with; one that is often
stated, but seldom satisfied in practice. So, before pushing
on, I, for one, would ask to see more detail on how "high
quality" is to be operationalised in a practical and
sustainable way.
I'm sure you have clear ideas on this, Ken. I'm just pushing
you to present these, more to show others that they can be
presented, and need to be, at the start of a project like
this.
Best regards,
Tim
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On Feb 16, 2013, at 01:26 , Ken Friedman wrote:
> Dear Chuck,
>
> We are indeed friends. I simply don’t feel that this project is going to work, at least not by using any of the systems that encourage group contributions. The list has been through this in a dozen different threads since the La Clusaz conference, and in the dozen years since, nothing workable has emerged.
>
> Now I’m taking a slightly different tack. I’m scouting workable opportunities. Call it “opportunistic.” I am conferring with a likely publisher, and getting an overview of what it would take to get a good first version up. Eight success criteria define the project. These include four technical performance criteria and four discipline-related quality criteria. Technical performance criteria are that the project must be 1) completed, 2) available, 3) freely accessible via open access, 4) fully functional within determined limits. Discipline-related quality criteria are that project contents must be 5) relevant, 6) selective, 7) useful and 8) high quality. Anyone must easily be able to locate and use the tool. Within the framework for coverage, any document that a reader locates through the tool will justify the effort of finding and reading it.
>
> There are three likely paths. All likely paths are linked to projects that are funded, under way, and functional. This is appropriate opportunism. I am not going to attempt to solve the maintenance problem for updating and adding new content. While I will seek and engage willing experts, I am not going to involve everyone in the field as a “village” or a “community.” First things first. The first goal is proof-of-concept and a working model that people can use. This requires expert opinion across the fields of coverage, and solid content that is reasonably comprehensive up to the date of publication.
>
> If someone can do better with another system, no one prevents them from doing so.
>
> This thread has been very helpful to me. For different reasons, I am glad once again to have encountered Zotero, Mendeley, and Academia-edu. The problem is not a technology problem – it is an expertise and content management problem. No software system will generate or maintain content. So I’m going to go at it another way.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | Mobile +61 404 830 462 | Home Page http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/people/Professor-Ken-Friedman-ID22.html<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design>
>
> Guest Professor | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China
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