[ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCBOARD] Posting on ARSC List re: ARSC AWards for Excellence

[Tim Brooks <Tbroo@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for forwarding this thread, Steve.  (I'm behind in my reading!)  

There is certainly worthwhile research on the Web that could be recognized, 
but I think we have to be careful here.  Having been on the Awards Committee 
for many years I know how overwhelmed it can get with all the books, liner notes 
and articles, and any approach to the web might require a new committee.  
Also, the impermanence of web based "publishing" is a huge issue.  A wikipedia 
article can be different every time you look at it.  Or gone entirely (unless 
somebody printed it out--on paper!--or saved it).  Time for the wayback machine.

That said the web is becoming critical to the flow of research, so I think 
it's worth investigating how this might be done.  It's just not simple.  We did 
discuss it as far back as the 1990s, when I was on the Awards Committee.  
Maybe now's the time.

Tim Brooks



In a message dated 1/19/2007 10:44:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Stevenramm@xxxxxxx writes:
Dear friends:

I have a question about the awards...has there been any discussion of 
including web-based research? Either in the same or in new 
categories? I reckon we ought to be encouraging it, and these or 
other public awards would be one way.

Thanks,

Joel Bresler
ARSC member

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Joel Bresler
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