Towards standard methods and metrics for evaluating IA

["Livia Labate" <liv AT livlab.com>]

Good job Rashmi! A few points:

On item five, "minor editorial changes" sounds a bit scary, I'd be afraid to
submit. Maybe because I'm used to submitting stuff to magazines and seeing
my articles getting chopped up by awful editors. Who knows, maybe others
share the same fear.

What kind of changes were you thinking? I don't believe we should make any
alterations to the metrics people send. I am unsure what you meant by this,
but if what you want is to normalize the submission by making them similar
in structure/form, we could instead provide submission guidelines and/or
even a template to be filled in. If so, then we could add another item
before number 4 that would say: "All submissions should comply with AIfIA's
Metric Submission Guidelines".

On item six, I would just change "may not" to "will not".

Items seven and eight could be just one item, hosting. Since this agreement
is for submissions, this will also depend on how the submissions should be
sent. If submissions will be sent through email, how do we know if they want
to host it or if we can? The agreement needs to specify exactly what's going
to happen, not the possibilities.

The reason why this works on TIA because we ALWAYS email the author before
translating asking two things: if they authorize the translation (under
TIA's terms of agreement) and saying that we will host the translation on
the language pages. Should an author express that they would rather have the
translations on their web site, then we do that (example: Garrett's diagram
at jjg.net/ai )

If the submissions are going to be uploaded through AIfIA's site, then we
could just add a form field where the person chooses this (might make more
sense since there are the CC choices to make as you explained).

Item 10 is a bit nebulous -- it's their own so it's an obvious "right". It's
AIfIA who is "allowed" to publish the metrics on its site (item 7). I'd
remove this one. Unless, of course, you mean something else by "final
metrics". By the way what do you mean by final metrics? I suppose you meant
the metrics after they have suffered "minor editorial changes" ;) So I guess
we go back to that issue before we settle this one.

Last but not least, this agreement doesn't apply if the person is not
submitting their own work. That's what I said before - people might want to
participate by suggesting things they like and use, not necessarily their
own work. Even just links :)

Cheers,

Livia Labate
http://livlab.com | liv AT livlab.com

The Translation of Information Architecture Project
http://aifia.org/translations/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rashmi Sinha" <rashmi AT rashmisinha.com>
To: <aifia-metrics AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: [Aifia-metrics] first pass at agreement


I have posted a first pass at a document describing the agreement between
the metric contributor and AIfIA. It deals with copyright issues as well.

I took the AIfIA translation project's agreement between authors and AIfIA
as a starting point and made alterations and additions as needed.

Comments would be welcome, especially if you are familiar with such issues.

http://www.aifia.org/projects/wiki/index.php?page=metricsAgreement

-Rashmi


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