[Air-L] AoIR 14 Announcement. Extended Deadline and More

[Annette Markham]

Hi Nancy and all,

I don't know if anyone addressed your plea for help yet, but I'm just
looking at the template linked from http://ir14.aoir.org/cfp/, and it
appears it IS the template.  All the sentences and paragraphs where the
style guide mentions a style are actually styled in that style.

Wow, sorry to be so clumsy in that last sentence, but y'all see my meaning
I hope.  I haven't done a deep dive yet, but so far all the styles I need
are already embedded

FWIW,

annette


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Nancy Baym <baym at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Regarding the formatting issue it would be extremely helpful and
> timesaving for all but one generous soul if one generous soul were to
> create a template with that style sheet that was available for download. I
> totally get the rationale but the thought of hundreds of people putting
> hours into formatting vs a few people putting hundreds of hours into
> formatting are both terrible compared to one person putting half an hour
> into formatting and the rest of us being grateful and treating that person
> to beverages aplenty in Denver.
>
> I know it is counter to everything I ever did for this organization to
> suggest something and hope others will take care of it but hey, I'm
> resisting my former self. Or something.
>
> Nancy
> ________________________________
> From: Alexander Halavais
> Sent: 2/24/2013 10:27 PM
> To: David J. Phillips
> Cc: AoIR-L
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] AoIR 14 Announcement. Extended Deadline and More
>
> I don't think our aim is to be a pain in the ass. At least not solely.
>
> You're right: consistency in submission does not necessarily aid the
> review process. There are certainly difficulties in reviewing for an
> interdisciplinary conference, as each of our reviews over the years
> makes clear. But picking the same typeface won't help with that.
>
> What it will help with is providing a consistent article style for
> SPIR. I think you will agree that a mishmash of styles makes reading
> such a collection difficult, and this is why collected volumes,
> journals, and proceedings try to provide some consistency among
> contributions. Given that the editorial committee for SPIR is entirely
> volunteer, we are asking for your help in this process.
>
> The pain happens somewhere, and I guarantee that those brave souls who
> are taking the helm of SPIR for a second year will get more than their
> share. We recognize that asking contributors to conform to a
> consistent style adds work on your end, but it allows us to--for the
> first time in several years--provide the work of our membership in a
> way that the broader community can easily access. I think it's
> important that our work have a life beyond the conference, and I hope
> this will help provide it.
>
> - Alex
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:53 PM, David J. Phillips
> <davidj.phillips at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > I would like to strongly object to this:
> >
> >> 3. In the interests of providing reviewers with consistency in
> submitted papers, all paper submissions must adhere to the SPIR template.
>  That template is now linked on the CfP page of the AoIR 14 site.  See it
> at http://ir14.aoir.org/cfp/
> >
> >
> > What is the point?
> >
> > Does any reviewer really have a problem reading papers in formats other
> than this? Can they not compare the content of papers if those papers have
> different margins or font sizes or long quote conventions?  Do our
> reviewers read only one journal? Are they desperately confused by varying
> citation styles?  If any of these are the case, they are perhaps not
> qualified to review.
> >
> > AoIR is interdisciplinary. Style templates are associated (for reasons
> I've never fully understood) with certain disciplines.  Why are we forcing
> our authors into one particular disciplinary form?
> >
> > And simply in terms of efficiency, it is a much bigger pain in the ass
> (for me anyway) to write in a different template than it is to read in a
> different template.
> >
> > What am I missing here? What's the point?
> >
> > djp
> >
> >
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