[Air-l] Collaborative online dictionaries (etc.)

[Lauren Squires]

thanks so much elijah! i'll check out the links.

and thanks for the terminology heads up...yeah, this is my 
first foray into this particular area of the internet, so 
i'm learning. we'll see if ms. boyd responds.

ls

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:30:24 -0600 (CST)
  elijah wright <elw at stderr.org> wrote:
>
>> 2. Does anyone have any references (articles, chapters, 
>>etc.) about 
>> collaborative reference projects? More specifically 
>>about the 
>> possibilities they pose for "democratization" (buzzword) 
>>of 
>> knowledge/language?
>
>you'll want to read Will Emigh's paper on wikipedia for 
>this year's HICSS conference (with Susan Herring); 
>available at
>
>http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/wiki.pdf
>
>there are some very interesting notations about 
>democratization in the paper; I think you'll enjoy it.
>
>there will eventually be a quicktime version of a related 
>talk Susan gave this fall, to be made available here:
>
>http://isdc.stderr.org/content/
>
>
>just as soon as it gets ripped off of the tape... 
> [There's an RSS feed available there; I encourage people 
>to subscribe to it.]
>
>
>> ps - If there's something I'm missing here about the 
>>difference between 
>> "collaborative," "open content," and "wiki" (aside from 
>>the fact that the 
>> latter is branded), I'd also be grateful for 
>>terminological clarification!
>
>
>my take is that those three terms all have different and 
>varied implications.
>
>but...
>
>* you can have collaboration without "open content".
>* you can have open content without it being wiki-fied.
>* you can have collab. without it being a wiki.
>* you can have wiki without either collaboration or open 
>content [there
>   are plenty of closed wikis...]
>
>or maybe you mean to say something i'm not getting?  my 
>brain is a little foggy today...  maybe dot-danah will 
>have something to say.
>
>--elijah
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Lauren Squires
Linguistics Program
University of Virginia
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