[MR] improving authenticity

[Aimee Kratts]

You know one thing I've always wanted since I joined the SCA (a scant 1 year 
ago) was something called "The Big Book of Reseach That's Already Done So 
You Don't Have To Do It Again." It would be, for example, the Authenticity 
Police's equivalent of St. Gabriel's website.

I've done research on a number of items only to be told by someone, "Yeah, 
I've done the research on that, too." And of course it's available. On a 
website I've never heard of, that's usually down. How maddening.

It would be lovely for some enterprising soul to collect and publish, in 
hardcopy, what research has been done in different areas so that the newbie 
can take off from there and get deeper into the subject more quickly. 
Peer-reviewed scientific journals abound. Why couldn't we do something like 
that for own organization's purposes?

The heraldry community has somewhat taken the lead on this, I think, with 
the Atlantian Heralds Handbook. Why couldn't we have a Bead-Maker's Book? A 
Scoll-Maker's Book? Etc.

Just a thought.

Amie

P.S. I love Stefan's Florilegium. I have learned a lot from it.


>From: "Michelle L. McDaniel" <McDanielM at si.edu>
>To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>Subject: [MR] improving authenticity
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:09:21 -0500
>
>Greetings all!
>
>Hope all is well with you and yours!
>
>If you take a peek at Stefan's Florilegium on the history of the SCA,
>you'll see that we've come a loooong way in our levels of authenticity from
>the early days.
>
>One of the things I'm doing to improve authenticity is to teach research
>skills. (Mundanely, I'm a librarian.) I've taught at both last June's
>Atlantian University and Pennsic. You cannot expect the populace to produce
>authentic reproductions without having them be able to determine what an
>authentic "whatever" is.
>
>Perhaps if more of the kingdom's librarians taught research skills,
>authenticity levels would increase.
>
>Anyone interested in my handout from the class I teach let me know and I'll
>e-mail you a copy!
>
>Take care!
>
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