Hello all,

I thought it would have been nice to have links to the projects in the voting form itself. I know a Google form was used with drop-down menus and I understand this poses a challenge in terms of hyperlinking. However I felt as a user that at voting one would like not to have to go to the previous page/other tab to click again on each nominated project before clicking on/voting for an option. It would be nice if all votes were casted for projects people actually knew, and not just because they sounded interesting, you were in a hurry and you only wanted to vote for your own project anyway ;)

I'm not sure how the importance of actually spending some time researching the nominated projects before voting could be stressed amongst the community, but I thought I'd share my feedback in this regard.

Labelling/categorising will always be a contentious issue. Having worked in the translation of Textal into Spanish I wasn't happy (personally) about it being nominated under "just for fun" (it was serious work). But hey, happy it was nominated at all...

I'd just be up for having a pool of nominated projects (i.e. all nominated projects would be under the same category: Nominated) and allow people to vote whilst giving them a chance to give their reasons behind the vote. This could provide the organisers with cool (messy, but cool, and potentially useful) qualitative and quantiative data about voters' preferences and rationale, and avoid the problem of pigeonholing projects and therefore offending (even if mildly) their creators, however chuffed they might be of having their project nominated.



All the best,

e



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On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:42 PM, James Cummings <James.Cummings@it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On 04/02/14 16:39, Bordalejo, Barbara wrote:
Isabel hits the target here. I was also puzzled by the
non-English. So much so, that I thought of The Artist: only a
foreign silent film can be nominated for best picture. As
always, I am aware that there is no deliberate attempt to
exclude and also, as always, I know that this is not
necessary.  The question is what can be done about it. My
suggestion would be to eliminate the non-English category and
to make a conscious effort to widen the spectrum of
submissions. Providing clear guidelines of what the committee
is looking for (up to date sites, new developments, classics)
is absolutely necessary.

All sound like good ideas.


Thank you, James, for taking the time to give details of the
fate of some submissions. It helps to know what happened.

I'm happy to respond to any individual enquiry.  I don't email all the rejected nominations simply due to time constraints.


-James

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