[APG Public List] citation Think Tank

[Jacqueline Wilson]

Cynthia:  The TGF list-serv is a great place for getting help with  
those pesky questions as well as the APG Public list.


Elissa and Doug and Cynthia:

Having said that, I find it difficult to follow some of the citation  
answers without seeing the actual document (for some documents - not  
all) because I have not seen the document before.  Being able to see  
the document would be a really big help.  Of course this is my  
personal problem and not a reflection on anyone else.

So I am trying to figure out a way to create something like a forum  
with pictures that is also free!  I am thinking about it, just do not  
know how to go about it yet.  Maybe a "Citation Wiki"?  Wiki not in  
the sense of wikipedia, but in the sense that it was used as a adjunct  
classroom for some of my classes.  Power point presentations, assigned  
readings, completed assignments were all posted so it included both  
text and visuals for the entire classroom to see and comment on.

Does this sound like something that is doable?





Jacqueline Wilson
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On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:13 PM, James Burnett wrote:

Elissa
This has been suggested several times on the TG list but no one has  
jumped up and said I'm in charge.
I would also like to sign up for one like this. Given the size of the  
effort one could envision a group formed and then spend a month on  
each chapter in EE depending on how many examples you wanted to work  
with and how often you submitted your effort to your peer group.

Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
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Interesting that Lisa referred to the TGF email list since it is  
Elizabeth
Mills who does much of the answering on citations either there or  
here. She
is very generous with her time, when she can.

I took the original question to mean a study group outside of an email  
list
and was waiting to see if anyone knew of one. This could be a "cause"  
that
someone might choose to "champion" just as the _Pro Gen_ Study Group was
formed as a response to a need.

What would such a "think group" look like? Would it be people sitting  
around
creating references for pre-selected sources? Would it be a place to  
bounce
your own citations off others? Would it be study of the whys and  
wherefores
of the citation models? Would it be like the couple of weeks that Dr.  
Tom
Jones spends on citations in the Boston University Genealogical Research
Certificate course? Just what would this animal look like? How would  
it be
administered?

More questions than answers,
Elissa in Pittsburgh