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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2301072, member: 1892&quot;]Think of it - from one angle; we&#039;re going a lot of different ways with the project - as an incubator workspace for numismatic researchers, a place where the more intense scholars among us (who am I kidding, we want the variety/error freaks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) can coexist and cooperate in a collaborative environment provided, ready-made, for them to express their work online. You won&#039;t have to be a &quot;name&quot; in numismatics (although we already have one of those signed on); just somebody with an intense interest in your favorite specialization and the desire to increase and share what you&#039;re learning in the company of people with similar plans who can help motivate you. </p><p><br /></p><p>You just want to blog? We can do that; I will be myself (among a <i>ton</i> of other things to include teaching people how to clean coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ). Want to display your collection? We&#039;ll have something for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>We can and will help members with anything from instruction in numismatic research technique (numismatic photography obviously a specialty) to issue-specific research services, pure editorial critique for blogging, bespoke coding to tweak your presentation to closer suit the information you want to provide, you name it. There&#039;s a pretty unique talent set involved in the project from both a numismatic, research and coding front/back end standpoint. It&#039;s going to be as close to or as far from turn-key as you want.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any online community associated with the place - in our plans, but not part of the Day One lineup - would be decidedly bent in that direction as well, and integrated directly with the research/publication side. We&#039;re going to do things a little differently from this aspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re welcome to contemplate whether or not your interests might dovetail with such a community. <i>Everyone</i> is. The agreement is, this is a place where one publishes one&#039;s work in Open Source fashion, releasing it free to the world upon publication. We wish to leverage the true power of the Internet - instant, wide dissemination of information - to empower coin collectors. We&#039;re here to teach, and if you want to teach too we&#039;ll provide the classroom. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know you already have your own online &quot;workspace,&quot; which is cool. We&#039;re here to <b>add</b> to the total, not displace anything else. The whole point of the thing is we feel there&#039;s enough room, enough market, for expansion of numismatic interest online to make a project like this not only possible but <b>necessary</b>. We&#039;re not going live for months yet; heck, we&#039;re still figuring out how many of our ideas we can implement by Day One as it is. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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