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There are a number of referencable material available: ShireWiki, Microscope, websites that are left; as for websites that aren't left, here's what I suggest. Write a text of what you remember (e.g. 'History of The Nautical Free State, 2003') and then reference a page where you keep that: as an appendix to the article, or on the ShireWiki, or just a web-page. Or, if it's someone else's memories, you could refer to an interview with them, or their history text done in the same way as your own memories. This allows for at least some basic level of accountability regarding materials not contained within the text - far better than general memory.
Do we need to be specific about which category texts fall into? At the moment, an article on cartography - a subject that this sector and several others have revolved around - would have to either be 'geography' or 'history' depending on its approach, with some shouts also to 'economy' and 'infrastructure' depending on context. In my view, we shouldn't have a new category for cartography, but just accept the article. I think these subject areas should be broad suggestions for bases for analysing micronational activity, and not overly prescriptive about the kind of material we accept. Instead the acceptance criteria should be seriousness and quality.
Do we need to be specific about which category texts fall into? At the moment, an article on cartography - a subject that this sector and several others have revolved around - would have to either be 'geography' or 'history' depending on its approach, with some shouts also to 'economy' and 'infrastructure' depending on context. In my view, we shouldn't have a new category for cartography, but just accept the article. I think these subject areas should be broad suggestions for bases for analysing micronational activity, and not overly prescriptive about the kind of material we accept. Instead the acceptance criteria should be seriousness and quality.
Formerly His Imperial Niftiness Yardistanislaus du Grifos, former Kaiser of Shireroth
Now just Vilhelm Benkern, Count of Mar Sara
Suzerain of Hawshire // Peil̊åkti an Ixraǔtn | Protector of the Safir // Xonuti Shawa 'allumi Sanilla'i'i | King of the Free State of Sanilla
Now just Vilhelm Benkern, Count of Mar Sara
Suzerain of Hawshire // Peil̊åkti an Ixraǔtn | Protector of the Safir // Xonuti Shawa 'allumi Sanilla'i'i | King of the Free State of Sanilla
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Well, in some instances I still have the websites in my personal archives.
The Nautilus Free State, for example, was one of my projects and I still have the old website kicking around which was merely a knock-off of the old AIN website (which I also still have). Even so, the website was vague, and the only way anyone is going to discern what it actually encompassed is for me to write up a fairly detailed article. I've started doing this to some extent by using my own biography on ShireWiki and systematically going through list of nations I created and building wiki pages for each of them.
What would be nice for me was if I had some place I could upload all these old websites to for display/historical reference purposes. At one point during one of my Apollo Foundations energetic kicks I saved the HTML code for the forum indices of several prominent ezboard micronations - including Menelmacar. It would be great if I had a place to put these up as a "snapshot" into the past.
The Nautilus Free State, for example, was one of my projects and I still have the old website kicking around which was merely a knock-off of the old AIN website (which I also still have). Even so, the website was vague, and the only way anyone is going to discern what it actually encompassed is for me to write up a fairly detailed article. I've started doing this to some extent by using my own biography on ShireWiki and systematically going through list of nations I created and building wiki pages for each of them.
What would be nice for me was if I had some place I could upload all these old websites to for display/historical reference purposes. At one point during one of my Apollo Foundations energetic kicks I saved the HTML code for the forum indices of several prominent ezboard micronations - including Menelmacar. It would be great if I had a place to put these up as a "snapshot" into the past.
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Maybe RIMA, as one of the longest-lasting historically minded fixtures of our hobby, would be a suitable place, but I'm not sure.
Formerly His Imperial Niftiness Yardistanislaus du Grifos, former Kaiser of Shireroth
Now just Vilhelm Benkern, Count of Mar Sara
Suzerain of Hawshire // Peil̊åkti an Ixraǔtn | Protector of the Safir // Xonuti Shawa 'allumi Sanilla'i'i | King of the Free State of Sanilla
Now just Vilhelm Benkern, Count of Mar Sara
Suzerain of Hawshire // Peil̊åkti an Ixraǔtn | Protector of the Safir // Xonuti Shawa 'allumi Sanilla'i'i | King of the Free State of Sanilla
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Re: Journal of Micronational Studies
Orion, I've got plenty of hosting space if you want me to set you up with an account. As websites are uploaded, I can toss together an index page on the main site to provide for ease of browsing. I'll send you a PM with the FTP and account details if you want to make use of this service (I think it would be appropriate as well since the domain is micronationhistory.info).
I like Benkern's approach to the referencing question - if Jezza is agreeable to that approach, we'll adopt it as how we will do things!
Regarding the categories, I was wanting to use them in order to classify articles on the index page of each issue, so that readers with particular interests would know what each article is generally about, as a means of grouping things. They also serve to give potential contributors ideas about different topics they can write about, as the field of "Micronational Studies" isn't as clear as a list of its various components are, in my opinion. Better to lay out a bunch of different categories that make up Micronational Studies, as opposed to have people who want to contribute wondering what exactly they can write about. For articles that fall into multiple categories, we can just assign the major ones that it touches on to the index page description. All articles meeting the seriousness/quality guidelines would of course be accepted - the goal isn't to impose specific quotas on the categories - as long as we have at least three articles, an issue would go ahead as scheduled.
As for the quality guidelines for submissions, that's the big thing we need to figure out in the near future so that we can get rolling on the first issue's development. The elephant-in-the-room question would be how many words minimum would contributors be willing to meet given their schedules? Bear in mind that a general half-detailed news article is ~500 words at the high end, so a referenced academic piece would have a greater expectation on length, in my opinion, unless it's a simple rebuttal letter to a previous issue's article.
I like Benkern's approach to the referencing question - if Jezza is agreeable to that approach, we'll adopt it as how we will do things!
Regarding the categories, I was wanting to use them in order to classify articles on the index page of each issue, so that readers with particular interests would know what each article is generally about, as a means of grouping things. They also serve to give potential contributors ideas about different topics they can write about, as the field of "Micronational Studies" isn't as clear as a list of its various components are, in my opinion. Better to lay out a bunch of different categories that make up Micronational Studies, as opposed to have people who want to contribute wondering what exactly they can write about. For articles that fall into multiple categories, we can just assign the major ones that it touches on to the index page description. All articles meeting the seriousness/quality guidelines would of course be accepted - the goal isn't to impose specific quotas on the categories - as long as we have at least three articles, an issue would go ahead as scheduled.
As for the quality guidelines for submissions, that's the big thing we need to figure out in the near future so that we can get rolling on the first issue's development. The elephant-in-the-room question would be how many words minimum would contributors be willing to meet given their schedules? Bear in mind that a general half-detailed news article is ~500 words at the high end, so a referenced academic piece would have a greater expectation on length, in my opinion, unless it's a simple rebuttal letter to a previous issue's article.
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Re: Journal of Micronational Studies
If we're going fully referenced, 1,000 words would have to be a minimum, I feel. That's the shortest length of any academic assignment I've ever done, anyway, and is a nice round number to work with
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I would be extremely appreciative of being given some webspace to host these materials on, so yes, if you can set that up that'd be great. I am using a Mac, so I don't know if that will present any issues or not; I've never used FTP on a Mac.Liam Sinclair wrote:Orion, I've got plenty of hosting space if you want me to set you up with an account. As websites are uploaded, I can toss together an index page on the main site to provide for ease of browsing. I'll send you a PM with the FTP and account details if you want to make use of this service (I think it would be appropriate as well since the domain is micronationhistory.info).
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I am.Liam Sinclair wrote:I like Benkern's approach to the referencing question - if Jezza is agreeable to that approach, we'll adopt it as how we will do things!
One option is to put it into a zip file and share the dropbox link...Orion wrote:What would be nice for me was if I had some place I could upload all these old websites to for display/historical reference purposes. At one point during one of my Apollo Foundations energetic kicks I saved the HTML code for the forum indices of several prominent ezboard micronations - including Menelmacar. It would be great if I had a place to put these up as a "snapshot" into the past.
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There shouldn't be, I don't know if you aren't able to connect via FTP already (via Finder). Here's a list of apps if you can't: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/intern ... s-for-mac/ - I can recommend FileZilla, I use it on my Ubuntu.Orion wrote:I am using a Mac, so I don't know if that will present any issues or not; I've never used FTP on a Mac.
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Pawel, thanks for giving Orion the necessary information on FTP and Mac.
Orion, the FTP account details are in your inbox. Also, if anyone else wants to avail of my hosting to bring their offline archives back online for referencing or just to have them made available again in general, please let me know and I can provide you with an FTP account.
The Review Board is presently discussing article requirements and we hope to be able to release pertinent details in the near future so that contributors can start writing!
Orion, the FTP account details are in your inbox. Also, if anyone else wants to avail of my hosting to bring their offline archives back online for referencing or just to have them made available again in general, please let me know and I can provide you with an FTP account.
The Review Board is presently discussing article requirements and we hope to be able to release pertinent details in the near future so that contributors can start writing!
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Yay, it works!
Behold, Old Puritania in all its glory.
I'll see if I can put together a nice index of the files I upload for ease of navigation.
EDIT: And thanks, Pawel, the FileZilla program works great.
Behold, Old Puritania in all its glory.
I'll see if I can put together a nice index of the files I upload for ease of navigation.
EDIT: And thanks, Pawel, the FileZilla program works great.
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There are a few considerations regarding referencing and general style.
Referencing - I would just opt for Harvard. Its easy to find and use and pretty standard. If people use first hand memory then they can always note that and the same goes for interviews. There are plenty of tutorials on referencing inteviews and so on around online.
Word counts - your standard polsci journal article is ~8000-10,000 words. Obviously that is a lot of work as most dissertations are that legnth and so require a lot of work as well as effort for reading. My essays are now 4,000 for most things, including bibliographies. That can take a lot of work though but is not impossible. They tend to be decently readable too if well written. 3,000 is about as low I can imagine anything of academic quality being. Remember the importance of structure, referencing and theoretical frameworks! So maybe 3-4000 words is a realistic count. For first year undergrads that sounds daunting, but not if you structure your argument properly.
Micronational studies I reckon is succinct enough. It gives plenty of room for lots of research. Grouping things makes sense. Maybe even having the area of study before the title e.g. Economics - Explaining SCUE...
Referencing - I would just opt for Harvard. Its easy to find and use and pretty standard. If people use first hand memory then they can always note that and the same goes for interviews. There are plenty of tutorials on referencing inteviews and so on around online.
Word counts - your standard polsci journal article is ~8000-10,000 words. Obviously that is a lot of work as most dissertations are that legnth and so require a lot of work as well as effort for reading. My essays are now 4,000 for most things, including bibliographies. That can take a lot of work though but is not impossible. They tend to be decently readable too if well written. 3,000 is about as low I can imagine anything of academic quality being. Remember the importance of structure, referencing and theoretical frameworks! So maybe 3-4000 words is a realistic count. For first year undergrads that sounds daunting, but not if you structure your argument properly.
Micronational studies I reckon is succinct enough. It gives plenty of room for lots of research. Grouping things makes sense. Maybe even having the area of study before the title e.g. Economics - Explaining SCUE...
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I agree with your views on the 3,000 word count, and I think this may be a typical result; however, in the start up phase of the Journal, the Review Board has decided to be less stringent on word counts.
For those interested, the minimum submission requirements for the 1st issue of the Journal are as follows:
1. Articles must be a minimum length of 1,000 words;
2. Articles must be referenced, with at least three references for the minimum word count noted in #1.
3. Authors are free to use their own referencing system in developing their draft article - a standard referencing system will be applied at the editorial stage.
4. If an Author references offline archival material (i.e. saved forum threads), the Author must send a copy of the material to Liam Sinclair so that it can be uploaded to the micronationhistory.info website for accessibility to readers.
5. The submission deadline for the 1st Issue is May 15, 2014. We are aiming for a May 30 publication date.
If you are interested in writing an article for the first issue, please send me a PM with the title/scope of the article so that the Review Board can be made aware.
I apologize for the delay in posting this information, it's been a busy macronational situation as of late.
PS: Submissions are welcomed in any one of the fluent languages of the Review Board members, which at this time would be English or Dutch.
For those interested, the minimum submission requirements for the 1st issue of the Journal are as follows:
1. Articles must be a minimum length of 1,000 words;
2. Articles must be referenced, with at least three references for the minimum word count noted in #1.
3. Authors are free to use their own referencing system in developing their draft article - a standard referencing system will be applied at the editorial stage.
4. If an Author references offline archival material (i.e. saved forum threads), the Author must send a copy of the material to Liam Sinclair so that it can be uploaded to the micronationhistory.info website for accessibility to readers.
5. The submission deadline for the 1st Issue is May 15, 2014. We are aiming for a May 30 publication date.
If you are interested in writing an article for the first issue, please send me a PM with the title/scope of the article so that the Review Board can be made aware.
I apologize for the delay in posting this information, it's been a busy macronational situation as of late.
PS: Submissions are welcomed in any one of the fluent languages of the Review Board members, which at this time would be English or Dutch.
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Apollo, perhaps? He is the Greek god of knowledge, after all... (Also it'd give you an excuse to reactivate/merge with/etc the Apollo Foundation )Liam Sinclair wrote:Journal of Micronational Studies (yeah, not the most unique name, alternative suggestions welcomed!)
Alternatively, if you'd rather a micronational deity, Kaena, after the safir goddess of the mind, or de Morgan, after the Cedrist god of logic, or Fax, after the Cedrist god of communication, or Hasan, after the Cedrist god of wisdom, or Meskan, after the Cedrist god of enlightenment, or Tex, after the Cedrist god of writing...
...but if you go that way I'd of course prefer you named it Kaena.
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Good suggestions, but using them would give the impression that the Journal is limited to the simulationist community in scope. We'll stick with the Journal of Micronational Studies for now, subject to future change so long as the title reflects the inclusiveness of the purpose and lends to an academic image.
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I'd say Chicago style.Craitman wrote:Perhaps a general Humanities/Culture section would house anything sporty. Can't see too much specifically academic coming from our sector to merit a separate area
Also, I'd say either Harvard or Wikipedia-style for referencing...
Also, it'd be nice if there were a Language section. :3
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