Thursday, April 12, 2012

where to from here

I've been looking over the concept of "community-sourced" editing whereby members of an interested community review and comment on a posted "article," performing in essence a form of peer review. I'd like to try it. I need to do more reading but this is one process I tripped over: you post your talk/article on a community-run blog and wait for comments. Once the flurry of comments (and your responses) have passed, incorporate such into your now reviewed article and if your article was considered hot enough, submit for publication with that same community's online journal.

Now this assumes and awful lot including "if you build it they will come" which I think is patently untrue without a great deal of effort to promote the concept. Also, it assumes you will have a hot enough topic such that you will be streamed into the corresponding community journal, etc.

I guess the more relevant question is how would a small fry like myself get this kind of a concept integrated into the LIS field and get a pilot up and running. Man I would love to do this. I'd even offer up my still-in-progress paper for sacrifice or even the next paper slowly germinating in the back of my brain that has never made it to "paper."

Comments. Please?