Research doesn't just include the "literature search" -- it's what you do with it afterwards that counts!
Goodness yes! There is a difference between a literature list and actually writing up an essay/piece on the topic. The problem with the SCA is that there is some resource hoarding because it's often the loudest person who implicitly gets the credit. Even when the person receiving the credit admits that they didn't do anything.
Case in point: a Viking-age person had figured out a possible method of making a pleated Birka underdress, but somehow a person she'd been talking this over with got to be described as the 'girl who had figured it out.' She hadn't, and never said that she had, she just thought it was a good idea and had been chattier than the person who had actually come up with the idea. Does that make any sense?
Re: Not SCA research (per se), but ...
Date: 2008-09-10 07:48 am (UTC)Goodness yes! There is a difference between a literature list and actually writing up an essay/piece on the topic. The problem with the SCA is that there is some resource hoarding because it's often the loudest person who implicitly gets the credit. Even when the person receiving the credit admits that they didn't do anything.
Case in point: a Viking-age person had figured out a possible method of making a pleated Birka underdress, but somehow a person she'd been talking this over with got to be described as the 'girl who had figured it out.' She hadn't, and never said that she had, she just thought it was a good idea and had been chattier than the person who had actually come up with the idea. Does that make any sense?
A less confusing, non-SCA example, is Jesse Byock 'figuring out' that Egil Skallagrimsson probably had Padgets disease, when Þórður Harðarson had written about it in Icelandic in 1984, so was much quieter about it.