I've been finishing up the documentation and display for my first Arts & Science entry, to be shown this weekend at Midwinter A&S.  For the non-SCAdians, think Science Fair, but for medieval crafty types.  I'm having a blast. Per usual, the gory blow-by-blow appears on my LJ blog, and I got a couple of questions that I thought might be universal enough to address here, and keep a category about.  So I introduce "Documentation" to the increasingly long category list at right, and the preceding two posts are about that.  There may be more. It occurs to me that not … Continue reading Posts about documentation

How do I keep track of books and other references?  In digital lists, which contain items that look something like this: 1.  ITEM CITATION (as appearing in a standard bib, whatever format I feel like, probably an amalgamation of APA and was it ALA we did in high school?) Who owns it -  Me?  Which library did I borrow it from?  Who can I get it from?  Have I seen it, or just heard about it?  From whom, and are they important/superknowledgable? What the book is generally good for; my own description.  (Now I'm ready to assemble an Annotated Bibliography, which if I ever encounter one … Continue reading Keeping track of source material

(excerpted from a worry thread on my LJ in 2008, before presenting my first A&S entry at Midwinter A&S) I like to produce a 'works I actually used for this project' list and a 'other sources you may find useful to follow me' list, because people who are new to the field may need to read more widely to catch up to the context I'm in.  The latter is what I mean by 'extended bibliography'. Funny thing happened at Menhir – somebody asked me to repeat the two-hour class that Gwen, Maudey, Una and I had just presented on the development … Continue reading Extended answer about an extended bibliography…