Hi James, thanks for your comments. As director of the Lincoln Archives
Digital Project, I agree that it is important to have knowledgeable people
in the field to give that stamp of approval. We make these records
available online, with no interpretation. In the future, History scholars
will be hired to provide annotation to the records. But that also involves
a cost in paying them for their work. If the community wants strict
standards, they must also accept the fact that it costs to have that
standard. Anything worth having costs something.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:18 PM, James Burnett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Steven T. Corneliussen <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > But it is also true that it's easy to find journals whose quality rests
> > on, for example, the presence of Ph.D.-level scientists serving as
> editors.
> > These editors--who obviously cannot work for free--manage the extensive,
> > complicated process of peer review and the transformation of raw
> > manuscripts into archived permanent products in something that also has
> > costs: science's evolving system for ensuring precise retrievability not
> > only of papers but of data sets from inside the annually accumulating
> > tsunami of work.
>
>
> I think peer review is the most important contribution you can get from
> these publications. ANYONE can publish something but that does not make it
> correct. Only when it withstands a review by knowledgeable people in the
> field can you depend on the document.
>
>
> --
> Douglas Burnett
> Satellite Beach
> FL
> As a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the
> National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Florida State Genealogical
> Society(FSGS) and the Virginia Genealogical Society(VGS), I support and
> adhere to the APG's Code of Ethics.
>
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