Update about CORE April 2021
Ouch, another five months have passed since I last sent out an update about CORE. Much of my effort over these months has been crunching data and writing, both papers and a book(!) One thing that has been started is to replace the current CORE site with a new one and I am planning for the switch over to happen next month. The major change there is that the new site is a “multisite” which means that it will be easy for someone to run a subsite around CORE in their own language. Clara Paz is pioneering this for Spanish and we are now clear enough that this will work to be announcing this. If you are interested in running a subsite in your language, do contact me and tell me about it. It needs a minimal understanding of WordPress, just enough to create any pages you may want, and to put posts into a blog. If you have never done this before, I can probably teach you enough to do that using share screen in a zoom (or similar) session.Â
What else is happening?
- The translation of the CORE-OM into Estonian is nearing completion. That only leaves Latvian and Irish of the official EU languages not done. If you know someone who might co-lead those two, do encourage them to contact me.
- I am struggling to sort out the messes where people have assumed that because we don’t charge for the CORE instruments, never have, never will, that they can do a translation without us. That is not the case and it’s illegal and it risks very poor quality control of translations. Please, please, if you want a translation we don’t have yet, you must do it with me. Sorting out the mess when people have ignored this is tedious. If you edit a journal or peer review, please always check whether a translation is a legal one.
- CORE is definitely spreading in Latin America, more on that in the year ahead.
- I am slowly getting on with the backlog of work making up PDFs for the CORE-OM and for all the short forms where we have a translation done. That will go into the new site which I hope will make it much easier to find and download forms.
- A rather shocking 22,874 files I created for use during the pandemic have been downloaded since 21/3/20 and continue to be downloaded frequently. See here [lost] for daily stats if that amuses you!
I think that covers the main news. There should be quite a bit more next month when the new site launches (16/5/21).
Original sent 16/4/2021, reconstructed 4/12/2024 when I realised that mailchimp had deleted their archive of posts on the list when they priced me out of using them! Author Chris Evans, licensed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
