Acknowledgements

Dedication

This community resource is dedicated to Bart Wlodarczyk-Sroka, a SETI researcher, and one of the younger members of the UKSRN, who sadly passed in 2022.

Acknowledgement and Origins

This work charts the beginning of a Post-Detection addition to the SETI Primer ed. Michael Oman Reagan et al., with the foundation of Kathryn Denning’s collected Post-Detection bibliography, and the SETI Post-Detection Hub collaborative working groups coordinated by John Elliott.

This Wiki work is an invitation to grow connected, transdisciplinary post-detection research cultures that continue from earlier scholarship on Post-Detection SETI, and build on the energy and work of Post-Detection work at the St Andrews Hub, and over the last years at the UKSRN Annual Meetings, PSETI Symposium, and diverse workshops, events and initiatives that brought people together to collaborate on research, share creative insight, and expand approaches to post-detection. We remain committed to properly acknowledging the foundational work of key researchers who created the field.

Emergent Co-Creation

The bibliography is open for edits and interested researchers are encouraged to contribute to the bibliography to grow a diverse, extensive collection of entangled resources.

Technically, the Wiki has been created through the Hub’s Emerging Practices Working Group with the aim of crowdsourcing an update for the SETI Primer with a section on Post-Detection. While our focus has been on developing a new Post-Detection section, we warmly invite contributions from across the broader SETI ecologies. This is not limited to members of the Hub; we encourage all interested parties to engage deeply with shared wiki culture towards cultivating an intergenerational research resource across disciplines, cultures and Place.

The bibliography is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license commonly used for wikis which allows content to be freely shared and adapted, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original authors. The CC BY 4.0 license ensures the wiki can be a true commons resource for the entire community open to co-editing.

Future

In the future we hope to refine and verify the bibliography to ensure accuracy, diversity, and simplifying navigation and organisation, towards the goal of integrating fresh sections for the SETI Primer on post-detection and scenarios. However, the project's future development will depend on how this co-created initiative evolves, and the guidance and wishes of the authors and stewards of the SETI Primer. The aspiration to update and expand the Primer is a creative goal shared across many in the SETI research community and we hope that the wiki effort can encourage this mission of sharing resources across groups and communities.

Inspiration

In creating this Wiki, we have drawn inspiration from other Wiki communities that demonstrate the power of collaborative knowledge-sharing. We share links to these here, with thanks!

Collapsible Wiki - https://wiki.collapsible.systems

Data Physicalization Wiki - http://dataphys.org/wiki