Mike Taylor dino@miketaylor.org.uk
This respository contains my work on an in-progress paper that will formally describe NHMUK 5937, a Tendaguru brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur known as "The Archbishop".
I've been intending to do this work for more than fifteen years now -- see for example my 2005 SVPCA talk Sweet Seventy-Five and Never Been Kissed -- but I keep getting distracted from this, my main project, by side-projects that I think will be quick and easy but which become big projects themselves.
In the past, I've written my academic works in LibreOffice, submitted them for peer-review, and only allowed the world to see them after they've been revised, accepted and published. More recently, I've been using preprints to make my submitted drafts public before peer review. But there's no compelling reason not to go more open than that, so I'll be writing this paper out in the open, in a GitHub repository than anyone can see. That also means anyone can file issues, and anyone can submit pull-requests.
I'll be writing this paper in GitHub Flavoured Markdown so that it displays correctly right in the browser, and so that patches can be supported. That will make tables a bit more cumbersome, but it should be manageable.
All the work herein is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC By 4.0). That means you are free to read, copy and modify it for any purpose, including commercial, subject only to the condition that you credit me as author and do not misrepresent my work.