[p2p-research] An Initial Proposal for a p2p Book Award

[Tomas Rawlings]

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-proposal-for-a-p2p-book-award/2009/10/12

So how can we merge the often top-down literary prize method with the 
p2p personal-recommendation approach? How would a p2p book award work? I 
guess from a starting point we could have an award for a book about p2p 
As a second there is the selection and judging process - which naturally 
would be done by p2p…

Aims
Starting at the start, here is what I would suggest that we could get 
out of the award (in order of importance):

1. To promote good books.
2. To promote good books on p2p ideas.
3. To show p2p in action via the p2p book award’s process.
4. To promote the p2p foundation.

Registration
Fist off, those who want to take part must register. We could use an 
existing social network to make the process easier and to guard against 
people using sock-puppets to skew the process.

Criteria for Inclusion
The next aspect of the process that is decided by the registered 
participants is the criteria for the year. We have a few broad 
categories; fiction, non-fiction and p2p and ask people to propose 
subcategories for these to narrow the field a little more.
We could, each year revise and evolve the categories from ones you might 
expect such as fiction and non-fiction, to the format; ebook, comics, 
PDF (though how do we judge difference between a long article and a book 
- and does it matter?) though it would seem best to keep a time-category 
in that the book/item in question must be published or re-issued within 
last 12 months.

Selection
At first people propose books for the initial round. Then at a pre-set 
date we’d stop taking new entries and then move to the next round. This 
would consist of books being ’seconded’ by the most number of people in 
the group; hoever people who proposed a book in the first round, cannot 
second it. We would then take the top voted 5 books in each category 
that go forward.

Judging
Then other people who have not proposed, seconded or read the finalists 
get a copy of the book and read them then come to a consensuses of the 
winner…

What do people think?

-- 
Tomas

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Tomas Rawlings
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