On 04/02/14 16:23, igalina wrote:
Dear James, I am so glad that you are on this list and were able to clarify. As I mentioned I really like DH Awards and I can vouch for the fact that there has been an effort to include resources from all over the world. I think that the non-English category threw me off a bit, as it seems to imply then that the other categories are for English-only resources. In your reply you ask whether the non-English category should be available at all. It seems to me that maybe not but rather as you suggest, make an explicit reminder that any language is allowed in any category. I don't know what others think.
Thanks for your feedback, it honestly is helpful. So you'd suggest that we get rid of the non-English category and just attempt to ensure that we stress that non-English resources can be nominated in any category. (That was my original thought in 2012... but given our only minimal response from non-anglo nominations the first year, we decided to include it this year. And we do have *more* overall, but less in other categories.)
I also think that as we get more non-English DH regional communities forming (which is definitely the case!), we shall also have available more communication channels so that more people find out about the DH awards.
That is what I hope -- I know my own context deeply embedded in the bastions of anglo DH privileges in many ways severely limits my own ability to even be aware of all sorts of communities. So I was hoping next year I might approach people such as globaloutlookdh to help get the announcements into those locations and languages.
I honestly hope that you do the awards again next year!
Even though we're only doing as minimal filtering as possible, it still takes quite awhile at a very inconvenient time of the year. ;-) But as an open-as-possible DH awareness-raising event I do hope it is more beneficial than problematic.
-James