The bulk of the article was written as an assignment for the cat & class module of my MSc course. I'm grateful to Pauline Rafferty, the teacher of that module, for asking that it be submitted in the style of a journal article as that certainly made it easier to revise for submission to the journal! I'm also grateful to the (anonymous) peer reviewers who suggested several improvements to the article, and to Eli (the editor of the journal) who commented on this very blog to tell me of the journal's existence.
I'm really pleased to see some positive feedback already - Ben the washtublibrarian has started a topic on the LSJ forum about collaborative/distributed classification so feel free to contribute there if you're interested in the subject.
Anyway, if I can do it anyone can do it, so if you've written something you think would be useful for others to read, why not try submitting work yourself? For example, LSJ is actively seeking submissions and has submission guidelines online. Go on, get involved!
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Hello Edith. I'd have preferred not to have to 'spam' this blog thread but I can't find another method of contact. I learnt in a recent email conversation with Pauline Rafferty that your MSc dissertation was along vaguely similar lines (in theme perhaps) to the (hugely dubious) one I wrote at City University a year or so before you. I've never gotten around to (or been persuaded that it was worth) trying to turn mine into an article, but I'm informed you did take the next step (the linked article?). I wondered whether it might be possible to have a brief chat about how your project went and how you set about converting it into a publishable piece. A little tracking back in your blog shows you didn't agree with some of the decisions I made...neither did I frankly! Anyway, I'll stick my rather impersonal email addy up here just in case: S-Airey(@)hotmail.com (remove the brackets obviously!)