Working Papers and a Bibliography?

Dear all,

Back in Tilburg now. Fully agree with David that Siena was a wonderful experience! (Thanks again to Monica and Carla, and also to Anna, Francesca, Mika, Raymond, Sabrina, Simone and Valentina for organising this truly unforgettable event.)

I was thinking it may be an idea to include a working paper series on the blog/website where documents can be can be pre-published as work in progress. It has already been suggested that the blog should contain a place where powerpoints etc. could be uploaded. I'm now suggesting this could be framed in a multi-media working paper series where all sorts of documents (ranging from PPTs, text files and posters) can be published (in the original sense of going public). A working paper series would just add a title (e.g., Work in Progress on Linguistic Landscapes) as well as some extra (online) visibility and retrievability. Comments pls.

The other thing we may like to work on collaboratively is a linguistic landscape bibliography containing our own work, but also references to work we consider foundational or just important for the field. A lot of these references can be found at the end of individual papers, but it may be interesting to have a more comprehensive central database that could be tagged with a couple of parameters. I'm not sure if the blog is the most adequate place to build up such a bibliography; this may be the sort of endeavour that thrives well with some sort of off-line coordination, for which I could volunteer to take initiative, together with maybe one or two others. Comments pls.