sheeny
14-08-2006, 02:29 PM
I've been thinking for a while about how articles and resources are submitted to IIS and maybe ways to increase the number of contributions to the site and providing more opportunity for members to contribute. The following are just some ideas to kick around... I have no idea how easy or hard to implement and administer some of these ideas would be!
Opportunity for collaboration:
I have thought about writing the odd article to submit to IIS but I know unless I know my subject well, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out and go into print so to speak. I'm sure a lot of others feel the same. At the same time, I know that one of the best ways to learn is to put yourself in the position where you are teaching others, or have to do some research to stretch your own knowledge.
I have a few suggestions for how collaboration could be facilitated on the forum. One might be to allow articles on the site to be peer reviewed and modified by IIS members, with a credit section included in the article. e.g. Original article posted by.... Updates to section xxx by ... etc. I'm not sure if this process would need to be moderated however.
Another method could be via a moderated sticky thread perhaps? For example, a sticky thread on how to use Registax. The first post might be a beginners perspective on how to get started with registax, some one else might add a post discussing wavelets, etc. But ultimately the one thread would contain a lot of useful stuff on how to use Registax...
Of course the other way to do it, might be for someone to write a basic article then start a thread to consult and collaborate with others on the same topic - sharing the work, while ensuring the article is peer reviewed, etc. There's nothing stopping people from doing that now... just whether or not they want to or have thought about it.
Finally another thought about the site to help imagers, but it may be extendable to observers as well - a "recipe" page. It would be almost a database, where members can submit their most successful/best/favourite capture and processing details by say target and scope. Then others can easily find some rough starting points for imaging their desired targets based on the results of similar scopes. Just a thought, it might be an administrative nightmare, I don't know:shrug: .
Just some food for thought.
Al.
Opportunity for collaboration:
I have thought about writing the odd article to submit to IIS but I know unless I know my subject well, I'm reluctant to stick my neck out and go into print so to speak. I'm sure a lot of others feel the same. At the same time, I know that one of the best ways to learn is to put yourself in the position where you are teaching others, or have to do some research to stretch your own knowledge.
I have a few suggestions for how collaboration could be facilitated on the forum. One might be to allow articles on the site to be peer reviewed and modified by IIS members, with a credit section included in the article. e.g. Original article posted by.... Updates to section xxx by ... etc. I'm not sure if this process would need to be moderated however.
Another method could be via a moderated sticky thread perhaps? For example, a sticky thread on how to use Registax. The first post might be a beginners perspective on how to get started with registax, some one else might add a post discussing wavelets, etc. But ultimately the one thread would contain a lot of useful stuff on how to use Registax...
Of course the other way to do it, might be for someone to write a basic article then start a thread to consult and collaborate with others on the same topic - sharing the work, while ensuring the article is peer reviewed, etc. There's nothing stopping people from doing that now... just whether or not they want to or have thought about it.
Finally another thought about the site to help imagers, but it may be extendable to observers as well - a "recipe" page. It would be almost a database, where members can submit their most successful/best/favourite capture and processing details by say target and scope. Then others can easily find some rough starting points for imaging their desired targets based on the results of similar scopes. Just a thought, it might be an administrative nightmare, I don't know:shrug: .
Just some food for thought.
Al.