As @pathall mentioned here (🙏 🙏 Thanks for participating this morning), our live chat was a really nice informal chat about @rgriscom and my work, specifically the training session we held in Haydom.
During the course of the discussion, I think @JROSESLA made a really good point about the (often) limited use of documentation experiences that are conceived of as broadly-construed “models”, supposedly with relevance for lots of different situations, versus the value of documentation experiences that are conceived of as specific, thickly-described “case studies”. Linguists are in such a wide range of situations when doing their work, and rather than searching for some sort of abstracted recipe, maybe we should aim to lay everything that we do out as clearly and explicitly as possible, and then leave it to each reader to take from that case study what they may.
@pathall also had lots of useful clarification questions, which I think will feed in to how we frame our project in the future. It links with the comment above that providing context is important!
As a reflection on the process, I think the chat went really well, and I think it’d be great to see some more of these synchronous, “in-person” events to go alongside the asynchronous, text-based basis that’s the backbone of this forum. It’s a great community!
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