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

Lauren Squires squires at virginia.edu
Sun Dec 12 14:26:56 PST 2004


i really can't get this listserv thing to work for me, can 
i? sorry everyone...

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:25:18 -0500
  "Lauren Squires" <squires at virginia.edu> wrote:
>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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