Comments on: Listen to the Gears: 15 http://newcurator.com/2009/10/listen-to-the-gears-15/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jenny http://newcurator.com/2009/10/listen-to-the-gears-15/comment-page-1/#comment-1735 Jenny Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:06:44 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1525#comment-1735 Yeah, me too. Yeah, me too.

]]> By: August http://newcurator.com/2009/10/listen-to-the-gears-15/comment-page-1/#comment-1730 August Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:31:20 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1525#comment-1730 Good point Jenny. Measuring impact as a value is of course subjective and you have to question whether it is therefore worth it at all. Except... that currently target-measured funding is the norm and the direction in which funding lies. By this I mean both that measured in terms of journal publishing and by impact. I wish that it wasn't. Good point Jenny. Measuring impact as a value is of course subjective and you have to question whether it is therefore worth it at all. Except… that currently target-measured funding is the norm and the direction in which funding lies. By this I mean both that measured in terms of journal publishing and by impact. I wish that it wasn’t.

]]> By: Jenny http://newcurator.com/2009/10/listen-to-the-gears-15/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Jenny Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:18:22 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1525#comment-1722 We talked about this at Tea in the Attic on Wednesday. We were discussing the DCMS 2005 publication 'Understanding the Future'. I don't think you can measure value easily. The RCMG are trying to work on things that you can measure, but it is a really hard task. And in any case, the drive towards targets is so damaging sometimes. What happened to just having a nice time? The experience doesn't have to be life-changing to be worthwhile. Just my tuppence... We talked about this at Tea in the Attic on Wednesday. We were discussing the DCMS 2005 publication ‘Understanding the Future’.

I don’t think you can measure value easily. The RCMG are trying to work on things that you can measure, but it is a really hard task. And in any case, the drive towards targets is so damaging sometimes. What happened to just having a nice time? The experience doesn’t have to be life-changing to be worthwhile.

Just my tuppence…

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