[Air-l] Re: conference papers online - 2003
Bram Dov Abramson
bda at bazu.org
Tue Dec 31 10:18:26 PST 2002
bendavidson at totalise.co.uk:
>Back in October there was much discussion on this list about the
>availability of papers from the Maastricht conference online. Or rather,
>there was much discussion about the fact that they weren't available.
Indeed. I think part of the difficulty, though, was in folks talking
past one another. For example, Ben, you remember a discussion that
went like this:
> A
>number of listmembers argued that putting them online was a simple process
>that should take no time and were critical about the fact that this wasn't
>done. Others appreciated there were two significant reasons for this not
>having been done - 1/ permission had not been sought from presenters and 2/
>it would actually take a lot of planning and implementation time.
On the other hand, what I recall is a discussion of conference papers
that had been placed online.
(Specifically, there are 112 PDF, html, and SIT [unzippable] files
available at http://aoir.org/members/index3.html. They include full
papers and extended outlines from AoIR 3.0.)
The fact is that they were password-protected. The discussion I was
interested in was around whether they should be. (The consensus, as
I understood it, was yes.)
The difference between the two discussions is the difference between
building a house, and unlocking a door. I think you will agree that
the latter requires considerably less effort than the former.
>What is actually included on the CD and produced for online consumption will
>most likely depend on the amount of work we might expect from volunteers in
>putting together the relevant material.
Sure, and I'll e-mail you off-list to volunteer. Speaking
personally, though, the existing format at
http://aoir.org/members/index3.html works just fine for me, and I'd
just as soon volunteer my time to reproduce an /index4.html. Hence
...
>to create a CD-rom of proceedings (including videos
>of keynote speeches), that could be available for sale after the event, with
>proceeds paying for costs of production both of the CD and of online
>versions of papers etc
... I'm happy to help build something fancier, if that's what's
proposed. But I don't think that the discussion to which you refer
is a reason to get fancier. Fancier takes a lot of planning and
implementation time.
cheers
Bram
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