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Mission statement #39

Closed LibrarPotter closed 8 years ago

LibrarPotter commented 8 years ago

Although we have an about section and several places in which we describe our goals, I can't find a concise mission statement for arceli. Does one already exist somewhere that I could add to our website? Otherwise, I'd like to propose that we brainstorm something simple to add.

kelle commented 8 years ago

Is this not what you’re looking for? The Arceli Project is publishing online astronomy content. Arceli serves as a bridge between blog entries and the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/# so authors can give and receive credit for their informal scholarly contributions to the field.

It’s here: http://arce.li/about/ We worked on it at he Hack Day in January.

If you think we can do better, I’m happy to try!

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:55 AM, LibrarPotter notifications@github.com wrote:

Although we have an about section and several places in which we describe our goals, I can't find a concise mission statement for arceli. Does one already exist somewhere that I could add to our website? Otherwise, I'd like to propose that we brainstorm something simple to add.

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LibrarPotter commented 8 years ago

To me that reads as summing up what we do but not really our goal. Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, but I was thinking of the mission being more along the lines of:

The Arceli Project publishes informal, scholarly, astronomy content to create a bridge between grey literature (such as blogs) and the formal corpus of scientific publications in the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) in order to allow authors to give and receive credit for their contributions to the discipline and to preserve this scholarship for future use.

kelle commented 8 years ago

I like it! And agree, it reads with more gravitas. :)

Do you have the access you need to update the About page?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:53 PM, LibrarPotter notifications@github.com wrote:

To me that reads as summing up what we do but not really our goal. Perhaps I'm splitting hairs here, but I was thinking of the mission being more along the lines of:

The Arceli Project publishes informal, scholarly, astronomy content to create a bridge between grey literature (such as blogs) and the formal corpus of scientific publications in the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) in order to allow authors to give and receive credit for their contributions to the discipline and to preserve this scholarship for future use.

Or something along those lines.

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LibrarPotter commented 8 years ago

I still have access to updating the About page. I have added this as our mission statement. Feel free to change it as you see fit.