Arek'Jaalan Mailing List W14: Call for Research Paper Abstracts

From	Hilen Tukoss
Subject	Call for Research Paper Abstracts
Date	113.10.13 20:36
Content	Although we are still in the early stages of negotiation, it looks as though we may be able to use Site One in Eram to house abstracts for various research papers. Ideally, in the long term, we want to house the papers themselves as well, but publishing concerns will mean that's still a fair ways off. In the meantime, however, perhaps we can get started by publishing abstracts for our fellow capsuleers. As a way to prepare, I'd like to request research paper abstracts for the following projects, to be handed to me sometime over the next four weeks. Abstracts should be sent to me personally. I will compiled them on our networks at a later date. If you need assistance with their drafting, or have any questions, don't hesistate to contact me. Dutch Gun Astrosurvey Theseus Algintal Common Ground Catapult Compass Tesseract Trinity Resolution Electric Sheep Slipstream Spirit Theta Omega Omicron Rho Chrono Continuity Reaction Identity Blueprint Huntress Green Gaze Rift SCAR Wyr Infernal Spade Gateway Drive The template is outlined below. Note: If you are in a project with multiple leads / contributors, make sure to include them all. Let's try and get these right the first time around, as editing will be impossible after a certain point. --- Paper: Name of Paper Lead Researcher: Name/s of lead researchers. Contributors: Name/s of contributors. Summary: For the summary, you are effectively writing an abstract. An abstract is a self-contained, short, and powerful statement that describes a larger body of work. For experimental research, your abstract should include the scope, purpose, results (predicted, if not observed) and conclusion of your work. For non-experimental and theoretical papers, please include the thesis, background and conclusion of your work. These abstracts serve as brief overviews, and must be relatively short in length. We will be operating under various hard limitations when publishing this information, so there are no exceptions to this rule. As a guide, this entire template I’ve written out here is about 50% of the maximum size. So if your abstract is three times as large as this, it’s too big. I’m happy to work with people and review abstracts, so don’t be too concerned about size, just be aware that it’s a factor we can’t work around. Rikaato,

From	Myyona
Subject	Call for Research Paper Abstracts
Date	113.10.15 06:57
Content	A bit of clarification, if you please. Are paper names supposed to be the exact same as the project name and is the expectation to only have one paper for each project? I have structured my projects in such a way that it allows for more papers to be released on each, as having just one paper seems a bit limited when the topics are so wide. Regards Myyona

From	Planetary Genocide
Subject	Call for Research Paper Abstracts
Date	113.10.15 07:06
Content	Perhaps an overarching abstract that details the goals of your project as a whole, with each separate sub-project having its own paper and abstract? The overarching paper can be merely an abstract + table of contents/index in that case, if that works for Dr. Tukoss?

From	Ollie Rundle
Subject	Call for Research Paper Abstracts
Date	113.10.16 03:28
Content	As Hilen Tukoss has already stated, abstracts are a simple and succinct summary of the scientific method, design and findings of a paper. The aim of the abstract is to provide a tool for the development of a focused list of papers for researchers who might wish to then look at such a list in more detail - in essence it prevents them having to wade word-for-word through megapulses of data that might well prove irrelevant to their own research. Combining this with a table of contents - within the same document - only serves to dilute the function of the abstract. It also limits the summary information the abstract can provide by taking valuable space away from its overall word count - a word count that currently has a hard limit set on it, as per Tukoss. As part of the Administration/Logistics branch I would make the suggestion that we keep the two concepts separate for these very reasons. I would add that it is entirely acceptable, however, for each individual paper within a multi-paper project to have their own abstract while the project's 'hub page' within the library contains a table of contents link to each. I acknowledge that this may well have been what Planetary Genocide was suggesting, but I wasn't 100% certain. -- -- Arek'Jalaan // Logistics & Administration Lead -- SYNE // Investigative Officer

From	Planetary Genocide
Subject	Call for Research Paper Abstracts
Date	113.10.16 13:57
Content	While that wasn't exactly what I was suggesting, your solution would work much better (plus it is close enough in concept that there is no real major difference). So yes, run with that.