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Fields vs Themes #16

Open keithamoss opened 8 years ago

keithamoss commented 8 years ago

It's going to be a challenge to decide where the cut is between a theme and a field given that they're so closely related. "Field" may not even be the right term.

Maybe "fields" should be limited to technical disciplines? (e.g. GIS)

jesserobertson commented 8 years ago

Perhaps you're better leaving fields out? We want cross disciplinary stuff so you don't want someone thinking "oh that's outside my domain".

keithamoss commented 8 years ago

Aye, that may be the case.

What gave me the idea for the concept of fields originally was your Getting to know scientific data page from last year.

I then started thinking along the lines of "Well, we could have 'field' pages for scientific data like that, probably geospatial, and whatever turns out to be relevant to the competition structure this year (e.g. agriculture, statistics, taxation, intellectual policy, health, ...)"

Then the other pages that were related to the field could link back to it as one place to go to find a quick 101 on the field, tips and tricks, tools, mentors, et cetera for it - rather than repeating it on each page to one degree or another.

To take a practical example - Geospatial Data.

The "Field" page would be some combination of your science data page and Landgate's GovHack doco which could be linked to from, say, an agriculture theme; by organisations and mentors from GA, CSIRO, Landgate, et al.; a prize like last year's National Map prize; and from SLIP, GA, and other geospatial data portals.