[KS] "InfoShare" / "Korea InfoPool": any suggestions?

[Frank Hoffmann]

Dear All:

This is just a very loose idea -- and I wonder what your take is on 
this, and what more specific ideas you may have (in case this seems 
something that may be wanted)?

Originally, when Rob Provine started an email discussion list in 1994, 
an important function was to exchange all kind of informations 
regarding publications, research, conferences, positions. That is still 
the same today. 

What I myself am sometimes missing -- and here I am not too sure if 
that is or is not shared by others -- is some sort of micro information 
exchange, or whatever you want to call it. Sometimes I wonder about 
smaller detail questions, issues that I would not want to post and 
"bother" 1,700+ scholars with, or that I might feel are questions whose 
answers I should certainly know the answer to by now but still do not. 
A typical example that came up today: some old newspaper article very 
briefly lists a person's education and then his current whereabouts, 
and there it reads something like: "[city name]서 自管" -- and I now 
wonder if this means person X runs his "own business" in [city name]. 
Or, a few days ago I was wondering about another very tiny detail: how 
would you transcribe "[person's name]氏" -- would you put a dash in 
between the name an ssi, better write it in two words? These kind of 
questions are clearly not questions one would want to really bother a 
whole list with, nor any personal friends. When you look for 
information of how to fix your computer or your car, you just search 
the Web and find some posting in some forum for sure that has the 
answer. Korean studies is obviously not such a big field, and the 
"forum" format would likely not work, because nobody would go there 
unless he/she has a question. 

Anyone has suggestions and ideas?


Best
Frank



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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreanstudies.com