[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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