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Arts & Sciences Documentation Resources

Documentation

Documentation is an important part of the competition because it's your opportunity to tell the judges about the work you've done.

Here are some tips for good documentation:

• Provide some historical context for your work: explain your research and demonstrate to the judges that you understand how, why, when, where, and who did this sort of work in the medieval period.
• Indicate your level of expertise in the topic area.
• Provide a "recipe" of your piece: explain how you made your piece, what materials and supplies you used, and why you may have made any substitutions from what was actually used in period.
• While printouts of web pages may form part of a good set of documentation, they are not sufficient on their own.
• Include a bibliography of your research sources.
• Entries must be anonymous, so don't put your name on your documentation.
• Make it legible and easy to read, then staple or bind it so it won't get scattered.
• Provide three copies of your documentation for each entry (one for each judge).

Documentation Resources

Some of these links are from other Kingdoms and discuss what is required in other Kingdoms versus here in the West. They are presented and linked here to provide food for thought when preparing your documentation. Some contain examples of documentation and the choices made when preparing the paper.

Demystifying Documentation by Sabrina de le Bere

Documentation FAQ compiled by Sabrina de le Bere

Documentation by Mistress Juana Isabella de Montoya y Ramirez

Charlemagne's Cheese: a study in the un/reliability of sources. By Mistress Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn [Published in TI Issue #139, Summer 2001]

Ruritanian Purple Feathers and Other Problems of Documentation. By Audelindis de Rheims and Caterina da Monticello, Not webbed, published in TI Issue # 77, Winter 1985.

How to Survive an A&S Competition Without Committing Suicide by Mistress Therasia von Tux

How To Write Documentation For SCA Competition by Lady Lêofsige Õ Caoimh

Judging in A&S Competitions: Methods and Criteria of Judging Documentation By Teleri Talgellawg

Documentation and Beyond: A Material Culture Approach By Teleri Talgellawg

Research is Fun!

Documentation is not an Obituary by Master Terafan Greydragon

Documentation: Or how do you prove it is real? By Remus Fletcher

Kingdom of Atlantia A&S Handbook, Chapter 3, Documentation, Documentation Outline, Writing Documentation

Documentation Standard by Lady Randall Vihar-Farkas

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