Research Specialist

A Pleiades UserRole

The Atlas Project employed graduate students to check bibliographic citations and other facts as submitted by scholar-compilers. In Pleiades, this role is titled ResearchSpecialist. To ensure the effective operation of the community from its inception, the first user with ResearchSpecialist privileges will be a UNC graduate student with appropriate skills working at the Ancient World Mapping Center (BrianTurner).

As the community matures, additional Collaborators with appropriate skills and interests are identified by the Managing Editors and granted the ResearchSpecialist privileges necessary to correct or reformat appropriate aspects of other Collaborators’ Suggestions, Essays and Articles (e.g., structured bibliographic citations and geographic feature types).

Refinements introduced by ResearchSpecialists? are tracked and credited? by the same mechanisms that record the authorial modifications taken by the originating Collaborator(s).

Cooperative arrangements with other research projects, as well as the promotion of demonstrably reliable Collaborators, increase the number of ResearchSpecialists? over time.