[Air-L] Looking for examples of aggregation communities

[michael_muller at us.ibm.com]

We've done some work around the concept of "curators" in social 
file-sharing services.  You can find slides from our presentation at ECSCW 
2009 on slideshare.net (look for "information curators in an enterprise 
file-sharing service").  And you can find the short paper from that 
conference at www.research.ibm.com/cambridge, then click on "papers" and 
search for the same title.

I know of two other groups that have looked at some of these concepts: 
Phoebe Sengers and colleagues at Cornell, and Sophia Liu at University of 
Colorado Boulder.

--michael
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Two thoughts...

Historically, there is some similarities with the Oxford English
Dictionaries. Essentially contributors serve as first round editors,
collecting and aggregating the earliest known usages of each word. Of
course, this is still a hierarchical organization and traditionally I 
don't
think it was much of a "community" -- still it might be a useful 
reference.

Fictionally, you might want to look at the second part of Cory Doctorow's
"Makers" which revolve around theme park/museums that are curated by 
people
who ride them.

- Matt

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Colleagues,

I'm looking for some examples of communities of volunteers that help
amalgamate a collection of materials rather than create them. The
example we are examining is the Encyclopedia of Life, which aggregates
data from many different scientific databases (and user-generated
content such as Flickr images) into a coherent whole. The participants
are called "curators" and their main role is to validate and approve
content rather than create it. They also do a lot of work to integrate
the original content into a coherent whole.

What similar examples exist on the web today? What examples have
existed for decades or centuries?

Thanks ahead of time for any examples or thoughts.
Derek Hansen
Assistant Professor
iSchool
University of Maryland



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Matthew Bernius
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