The goal of the workshop is to come up with a research agenda for co-creative systems. We aim to put out a journal article describing the result. All participants of the workshop will be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section of the paper for their ideas, but we also wish to invite our participants to co-author the paper! We want to make it absolutely clear from the start what the criteria for authorship (as opposed to just acknowledgement) look like.
In short: to become a co-author in the paper you will however need to dedicate some time and effort in participating in the writing. More specifically, the criteria for being accepted as an author are:
- You will need to write a part of the paper. As an author, you will likely be tasked to write a part of the paper. This can include a rough sketch of a part of the manuscript, or a more detailed section, such as a few paragraphs in your area of expertise.
- You will need to participate in editing the full manuscript. As an author you will also be expected to read other parts of the work and give constructive feedback on them. You will also be expected to read the full manuscript and leave your comments, or do edits assigned to you.
- You will need to keep to the agreed schedule. All authors are expected to do their part in time. We anticipate we will work with a larger group of authors than is typical within the field and as such, keeping to a timetable is very important. Our initial schedule is to have our initial draft of the manuscript ready by the end of October and to submit the manuscript by the end of November. We may revisit that as a group, but everybody is expected to keep to the plan.
- Order of authors will reflect the amount of work put into the manuscript. We will recognise the amount of work put into the manuscript by having the highest contributors first in line. While we recognize the importance of coordination work; e.g. people in charge of coordinating the writing of sections are likely to come before the authors of single paragraphs or subsections, the order of authors does not necessarily reflect an absolute ordering of work hours put into the project. The order of authors is also subject to change if the manuscript needs many corrections after peer evaluations. The workshop organisers are not privileged in this process in any way, although we do all plan to contribute significantly.
- The authors will be asked to acknowledge these criteria with their signature in a paper writing agreement. Any collaboration has a risk of disputes over authorship, and this paper could end up with a very large number of contributors. We think that there's a potential for some misunderstandings, so in order to make sure that everybody has read the above, we're going to ask people to sign their names to it. That will happen when we meet two weeks after the workshop to start writing up the paper.
The paper will draw from materials constructed during the workshop. Should you not wish your contributions to the research agenda to become part of the resulting paper, we recommend that you abstain from contributing during the workshop.