Dan Scott @dbs@scholar.social

My relationship to "word count" has shifted over time

Before: start writing a day or two before a deadline (or a few hours...) stop writing when I reach the expected word count, slap on a title, intro, and conclusion that seem to match, done

Now: write everything I need to say, see I've doubled the expected word count, spend days revising/cutting/crafting and worrying about the removal of so much context and qualifiers

Almost done this draft proposal, all I have to do is outline the expected theoretical and applied contributions of my proposed area of study.

hahahaha I expect to be doing that for years to come; let me just summarize that in 100 words

2018 article w/20 citations: "The complete overview of our model can be found at [URL]"

Today: URL = 404, nothing in Wayback Machine, no trace found manually browsing web domain, research group's site, or first author's site

Off goes another email to the author...

Called it. Despite including the journal title, vol/iss, pub date, and pages in the ILL request, I received the conference paper of the same name (but different date, pages, pub venue...) instead of the journal article.

I had even put the DOI in the comments field.

*sigh*

But at least it was really fast? Less than 20 hour turnaround time for a request issued on a Sunday.

https://scholar.social/@dbs/101926418941465138

"Qualitative tools that have been demonstrated reliable and applicable in several domains are Likert Scale surveys, that […]" - from a 2008 paper

No, no, please stop!

Please don't give the exact same title to your conference paper and journal article.

It can be a little hellish to track down the correct content, and if things get difficult for a researcher, they just might decide to skip over that resource.

(says person who just placed an ILL request for the article and fully expects to get the conf paper...)

Hello, computer science journal homepage straight out of the 90's (but issue 1 in 2005 and still publishing in 2019):

http://www.ijicic.org/

Just found out that an international conference at which I co-led an all-day workshop is reimbursing my travel expenses!

Icy icy branches day (a photo reply to https://scholar.social/@bgcarlisle/101892154082052918)

I used 30 seconds of my allotted 15 minutes to acknowledge that McGill is situated on the traditional meeting grounds of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnabeg nations.

We had four speakers and more attendees than usual for today's seminar so it really needed doing.

https://www.mcgill.ca/edu4all/other-equity-resources/traditional-territories

Well I gave a 15 minute presentation summarizing the synthesis of my reading course, including gaps I had identified and NOBODY LAUGHED AT MY BABY STEPS.

Even got to answer one of the audience questions with a "well thank you for asking, I just happen to have a Proposals slide in my appendices!" ta-da moment.

It's weird, I've given a ton of presentations before, but this one really stressed me out.Onwards!

I'm going to borrow from @artsyhonker and try #FocusTime today: 10 minutes of check-in/planning, followed by 50 minutes of work. Kind of a modified Pomodoro technique.

Starting... now.

Prof, reviewing the research proposal I submitted as the final assignment for our research design class (iteration #3 for this term), stated that he thought it would probably pass an actual thesis proposal.

That event is still way off in the future but holy heck I needed that validation.

"Oh but what about incorporating knowledge graphs into technical documentation to support both discovery and writing?"

No. ssssssshhhhhh

No, self. You can't cover all topics of interest such as quality assessments of linked bibliographic data, intersections of bibliographic data and knowledge graphs, and expressing culturally diverse perspectives w/ TK labels through linked data.

Not if you're going to a) get a research proposal accepted and b) follow through on that proposal to c) successfully defend a thesis.

At least before the heat-death of the universe.

So I clicked "Send feedback" -> "About something I do not like" and wrote:

"""
Word Online seems to be incredibly glitchy just entering text using Firefox on Linux: [summary of bad stuff]. Basically it makes me never want to use Word Online for word processing. These things never happen in Google Docs.
"""

Included a screen shot. Hope they can figure something out.

This time I added a row to a table, tried to copy an existing row into the new row (to maintain formatting), but things got glitchy. So I hit CTRL-Z and it undid the addition of two rows (!), and then I hit CTRL-Y and it crashed.

WTF Microsoft?!

Well, after a little more editing (this time picky little text and formatting edits in a table), Word threw up an error dialogue that (not kidding) said "Word Online encountered an error and needs to restart".

Really!

Looks like my solution will be to write the actual text in VIm and then paste it into Word Online. And hope that *that* works.