Friday, January 19, 2007
Scholarpedia?
There's yet another attempt to harness the free community oriented benefits of Wikipedia to a more traditional (and therefore [perhaps?] reliable?) form of approval. Started by a Neuroscientist called Izhikevich, Scholarpedia seems to be a heady mix of Wikipedia, peer review and social software.
Scholars who participate will gainBrownie Scholar Index Points which will buy them more favourable treatment. Users will be able to benefit from reliable (or at least authorised) content, as well as suggest edits (though the page's curator will have a veto).
Will it work? Who knows... Will even Jim read it's articles (when it gets round to publishing in theology)? Can this mix of idealism and pragmatics work at all? See the review in ifBook for more coherent thoughts than I have time for this week, whatever this is a project to watch with interest as we anxiously await the future of scholarship.
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Scholars who participate will gain
Will it work? Who knows... Will even Jim read it's articles (when it gets round to publishing in theology)? Can this mix of idealism and pragmatics work at all? See the review in ifBook for more coherent thoughts than I have time for this week, whatever this is a project to watch with interest as we anxiously await the future of scholarship.
Labels: encyclopedia, wikipedia
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