Orenski Peter J. Quo Vadimus. An Essay on the State and Future of Vexillology

2003. - 131 p.Introduction – Vexillology poised between past and future page.
Part 1 – Four decades of vexillology.
Vexillology emerges as organized discipline – 1960-2000.
Signal Accomplishments.
Vexipublications.
FIAV.
Vexillological societies.
Cybervexillology.
Flags of the World (FOTW).
NAVA’s website.
Difficulties and challenges.
Vexipublications.
FIAV.
Vexillological entities.
NAVA’s Challenges.
The Internet, the Web, FOTW.
A basic Web deficiency.
Web negatives affecting cybervexillology.
FOTW negatives that affect cybervexillology.
How vexillology hampers cybervexillology.
Part 2 – Vexillology and Science.
The scientific method.
Definitions of science and scientific method.
Types of science.
Some problems of science.
A basic history and taxonomy of science Vexillology.
Overview & definitions.
Types of Vexillology.
Vexillology-as-study.
Vexillology-as-hobby.
Vexillology-as-action or Vexillologie engagée.
Vexillology-as-merchandising.
Vexillology-as-business.
Vexillology and Science.
Is Vexillology a science?
Can Vexillology be a science?
2.3.3 – Toward scientific vexillology?
Part 3 Scientific Vexillology.
Scientific tradition in Vexillology.Past scientific vexillological studies.
Collecting data on flags.
National & sub-national flag data.
Data Classification (taxonomy).
Examples of fully scientific methodology.
Multi-disciplinary studies.
A scientific vexillological study using the Internet.
Introduction and Objectives.
Theoretical basis for the survey.
Background and practical considerations.
Assumptions and working hypotheses.
Overall Structure and Methodology.
Survey results.
Analysis and discussion of results.
Reliability of data.
“State-control” hypotheses vs. Survey data.
“Heraldic tradition” hypotheses vs. Survey data.
Summary and conclusions.
Footnotes.