[Air-l] Collaborative online dictionaries (etc.)
elijah wright
elw at stderr.org
Sun Dec 12 13:30:24 PST 2004
> 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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