Editorial help
David Talley
We heard a call for participation at C4L12, and I thought I might be
able to help. Back before I started doing web stuff, well before
library school, I made my living doing editorial work for academic
publishers. I've done a fair amount of work with WordPress, too. I'd
be interested in hearing about the need for that sort of thing and the
journal's overall workflow.
David
Beanworks
C4L12 announcements++
For information starters, you could browse some of the details here: http://journal.code4lib.org/process-and-structure
We keep a lot of the information on the code4lib wiki: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Category:Code4Lib_Journal
Those resources probably cover the process and workflow much better than I can here, but briefly:
A call for proposals goes out to various lists
Proposals are submitted, preferably through the website submission form
The editorial committee votes on the proposals and, for the ones that pass, an editor is assigned to shepherd the article to publication, along with a second reader from among the editors
When an article draft is submitted, it's editor passes it along to the rest of the editors for comments and communicates back with the author
Editors enter the articles into WordPress, which is currently in desperate need of upgrading to the current version, and recommend their article(s) for the final vote.
Once everything is entered and passes the final vote, the coordinating editor for that issue publishes the issue.
Tom Keays and Ed Summers have volunteered to work on upgrading WordPress, which may present some issues due to the plugins currently being used.
More questions?
Carol Bean
Coordinating Editor, Issue 16
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Gabriel Farrell
still interested after this flood of information), please send a short letter of
introduction to jou...@code4lib.org answering the questions at
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_Recruit_New_Editors,
which I'll copy and paste here for posterity:
Answer each question with just a few sentences:
1) What is your vision for the Code4Lib Journal? Why are you
interested in it?
2) How can you contribute to the Code4Lib Journal? What do you
have to offer?