please vote on new AAA ethics statement

[Lise Dobrin]

Alex and all --

Yes, as an object the ethics statement is totally unwieldy in its current state. The intention is to turn it into a smooth-functioning web document once it is adopted (assuming and hoping that comes to pass!). Thanks for bringing this up -- it's an important point.

Lise



> Date:    Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:19:45 +0100
> From:    "King, Dr Alexander D." <a.king at ABDN.AC.UK>
> Subject: please vote on new AAA ethics statement
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I would like to voice my support for the new statement drafted by the committee. I applaud the move from a 'code' toward  a set of 'principles'. I like the statements and the wording is great. I found the text very thoughtful and carefully considered. I voted 'yes' last week and I encourage others to do likewise.
> 
> I do have one complaint, however. As a document (an object) the PDF is a mess. It is full of embedded links that make my computer jump from my PDF reader to my browser, which then downloads another PDF which is often just 3-5 lines of text. What is wrong with footnotes! There are some links to full-blown web pages, which I suppose are useful, but PDFs are best used for self-contained documents that have formatting that the author wants preserved across several different platforms or needs to embed custom fonts (very important for linguists!) The ethics statement is really just ASCII text and would be best served by simple HTML. I am hoping that the plan is to make it a HTML web page when (if) it is approved by the AAA membership.
> 
> If it must be a PDF, could the committee please just put the notes inside the PDF instead of all the external links?
> 
> Alex