Editor Guidelines
in @ Az|Core terminology and suggestions to the editors. The idea is to speak out, certainly, and at the same time remember that in @ AZ| Core is primarily an observer, however uncomfortable with the situations it observes. You must at all times account for the presence of the observer, and the effects it has on the processes we try and understand.
- Browse through past entries to get a feel of the language and the nomenclature and familiarize yourselves with Architexturez Controlled Vocabulary
- The same topic can have multiple entries, if they are about a month apart. Sub-title the entries in a logical sequence, for example, Award-Contests might have these phases: "announce", "update", "result" and "controversy".
- Section and Category names must be unique. No duplicates are allowed
- Editors may post on behalf of others, or people who want to remain anonymous. An anonymous author will be assigned a pseudonym ("so-and-so") and new entries will say say [posted on Behalf of "so-and-so"] (include the brackets) in the very last line (i.e., above the by-line), while modifying an entry say ["so-and-so" via "editor name"] in your post.
- Allow comments only if you are very sure. You can edit other's entries for brevity, accuracy, language and so on. Remember to spell-check.
- Comments posted by visitors are considered the same as Letters to Editor in print media. Editors may review the content, abridge them or remove them altogether from the web upon their discretion.
- Save as draft for at least a day before pushing the 'publish' button; also remember to correct the date of publication and add a changelog entry at the bottom after a major edit.
Always save e-mail and remote submissions as draft. It helps to use the "notify" feature before publishing.
What, Where
- Architexturez South Asia and other Semantic Maps, "+" will accomodate contents we can link in the semantic map, all material published in the "+" section has links to other materials. No orphans allowed.
- Architexturz Files, "FILES" will have material that is not adequated in semantic map, or texts that elaborate material published in "+" but do not contain argumentation. Editors may dump texts here if they are orphaned, and move to "+" when the semantic map has evolved to satisfaction.
- Architexturez Subject Gateway, "sub.gate" is lexicon, material is "harvested" off the internet via the search engine for corpus creation, and semantic map generation.
- Architexturez Collaborative, wiki, "Site" has texts under construction. Mailing list In-Enaction or at least three editors must approve texts before they are moved to "+" or "sub.gate".
- Architexturez Microsites, "-" are document archives, databases, and repositories of various kinds which are structured by the creator(s) so as to reflect the scope of a certain creator.
"+", sub-sections
- Competitions and Opportunity: use "contest" for unqualified competitions, and "competitions" for announcements that follow any of the Major competition formats [e.g., the Mies award, Borromini or Europan] -- competitions must have regulators, clear guidelines and norms, supervisory bodies of some standing and legislative powers, and must not promote products or trade names. Use "opportunity" for academic announcements useful to students and fresh graduates, and in very rare cases (ask another editor to verify your stuff) job announcements. Awards are also classed under this category. Events must be iterative, one-off events are announced in In-Enaction
- Imprints and Media: editors must work closely with curators, and people providing the content. Imprints are printable documents, media means digital media.
- Enaction and the Profession: Critical reviews: check previous entries for existent themes: new themes and entries must always be approved by at least one another editor, and must have ramifications on the state of the profession or education. Add a "possible public review" for anything that is even slightly questionable, else put "of note" in the first line: Architexturez may review the dubious ones, but it will study the rest.
- Research Abstracts and Documents: Research will mean original studies and in-depth analyses with at least one supervisory body of some standing. Documents will mean Documentation, Archival Materials and Self-Published papers [the last must be approved by at least one more editor]. Public-review processes will always be titled 'Document': subject. Informal publications are "papers", "post" (in case of an e-mail or web contrib) or "abstract"; as warranted - link at least four informal publications per post. Conferences and Seminars, again, established nomenclatures are followed. Conferences have peer-reviewed documents, paid members, and umbrella organisations of a legal standing. Seminars do not satisfy all these conditions.
- in @ Az|Core: Architexturez development news and new feature announcements. Try and annotate an existing entry before starting a new one, for example, all technology upgrade news and documents released by Architexturez are appended to the "build begins" entry.
- "+" categories in other domains will follow the patterns, except for AZ-IN.