[antir-heralds] Pic Dic

[Leslie Schweitzer]

An interesting thought. Part of the logistical difficulties in the past have had to do with the need for the PicDic updater to have access to all the Laurel files including the documentation sent in by the submitter. Back in the day when we did all the submission and commentary stuff by paper mail, the exact documentation photocopies were almost never sent to the College of Arms as a whole. Unless the PicDic updater were somehow near the Laurel files, the exact details of documentation supporting a decision weren't available to the PicDic updater.

(Trust me. I'm all for PicDic updates but when I was Wreath it rapidly became clear that "and also remember to send Bruce copies of anything that might be needed for the PicDic" was just too low on the priority list to even consider doing, if I wanted to attempt to stave off insanity (which I hope I did, but I'm never certain.))

Now that Virtually All This Stuff is on OSCAR, the only things that wouldn't be on OSCAR is research done at the Sovereign of Arms level after the commentary process. If Wreath, after the meeting, sends an email request to Electrum to research whether Scots Toenail Clippers as shown in this submission are good period versions, and Electrum writes back "yes, a photo of these items is in "La Toilette Ecossaise" where they are dated to 1536", that won't be available to the PicDic updater via OSCAR. But much more of it will be...

... So, updating the PicDic could perhaps, in the future, be done more frequently than every 15 years. It may, however, still make sense, due to format, to just release a new edition of the PicDic rather than release a separate "update" volume.

It's also worth noting that the PicDic is not an official SCA publication like the Armorial and Ordinary. It is a private publication by Bruce Batonvert mka Bruce Miller and any co-authors he may have. (The 1st edition was co-written by he-who-was-then-Akagawa Yoshio / Kevin Munday.)

Zenobia Black Stag.

> Does anyone know if there are plans to publish future updates to the PicDic?
> Or is this even something we have the person-power to work on?
> 
> It seems, to me, to be a better option than another large-scale revision in
> another ten years.
> 
> ~Elspeth Dubh
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Brian Russell <vox at xprt.net> wrote:
> 
> > Lady Elspeth asked:
> >
> > >Are printed updates/additions to the PicDic being made available, or would
> > I
> > >need to purchase the whole book again?
> > >It would be far handier if there were a few pages to remove, replace or
> > add
> > >to my binder.
> >
> > The updates covermost every page, so updating is pretty unrealistic. Baron
> > Bruve has made wholesale revision to the text, and I'm told, replaced many
> > citations to SCA armory with real-world armory, which will help us ground
> > our re-creation of period armorial style, by giving folks with smaller
> > libraries access to even more images based on period exemplars.
> >
> > Ciaran
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