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The Calamitous Collapse of the Scholarly Societies Project in 2011
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The Cause of the Collapse
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The Never-ending Task of Repairing Links in the Project Takes its Toll
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y March of 2011, after several punishing years of
repairing broken links in the
Scholarly Societies Project, the Editor
(Jim Parrott)
accepted defeat and stopped all work on the Project.
This was a painful moment, since he had already
devoted in excess of 10,000 hours
since 1993 to developing this resource - much of this work was done during his
tenure as a professional librarian at the University of Waterloo Library.
As well, it was clear that at the time well over a thousand library (and other)
websites had valued it sufficiently that they made links to the Project from
their institutional websites.
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Ensuring that the Project Remained Available
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Working with a Commercial Publisher to Keep the Project Available
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ome time later, by mutual consent, the University of Waterloo Library
transferred a copy of the data set to a commercial publisher (references.net)
so that the frozen
version could be continue to be made available to the public.
In this arrangement, the Editor, Jim Parrott, as content creator, retained copyright; he also kept control of the domain name, scholarly-societies.org
- with the vague hope that it might be possible to develop the Project further
at some time in the future.
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