New collaborator?

If you are new on these pages and you want to participate to the elaboration of the Speleological Abstract then you're concerned by the following lines.

You have to know that the BBS is built up with a lot of abstracts every year, 4570 for the number 37. This is why the realization of the BBS must be organised as a swiss clock, with strict rules, using a standard file procedure to get rid of most bug sources and to diminish controls.

Realization procedure

Every country is analysing is own journals with all their articles even if they cocern expeditions in foreign countries. It sometimes appends that collaborators working on small countries (ex: Papua) analyse articles published in other journals (ex: International Caver) but these article are also analysed by the team of the publication's country (ex: United Kingdom). This create double files which are sometimes not dicovered.

For each country: the best situation

We need a coordinator. His working schedule is the following one:
- He is distributing journals to analyse to his collaborators
- He is collecting back the files
- He checks the files: he checks all the file, names, title, abstract and codes
- He makes sure that there are no double files
- He checks that every journal has been analysed
- He send the files to the general coordinator of the swiss redaction (Patrick Deriaz)
- He must respect delays fixed by the swiss redaction

Then we need a maximum of collaborators which perform the following work:
- They read the journals submitted by their coordinator
- They make the files for articles they think should figure in the BBS (these articles should bring something new to caving like for exemple: a new topography, a new description, a new technique, a scientific approach, etc...)
- The files must be done with tools and instructions avaible in these web pages
- They must respect delays fixed by their coordinator
- They send their files to their coordinator

The best situation?

It is quite clear that the situation described is not always possible and this is why the swiss redaction makes also analyses for countries in which the work cannot be done. It is quite obvious that the swiss redaction cannot do the whole work.

Futhermore it is also quite obvious that if we want analyses of good quality we need cavers that know about the countries for which they are doing the analyses.

Disponibility

For each question, the swiss redaction is here to answer. Meetings will be organised if they are needed for people that would want to join the team.

Thank you for your attention and we hope for your participation.

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