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Sep/Oct 2008
Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia.   |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Lally & Dunford |
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The editor highlights several articles including one on the Massive Open Online Courses phenomenon. The characteristics of MOOCs that intersect with the traditional provision of library services are discussed. |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2011
Rob Chant |
How Small Businesses Can Get a Link from Wikipedia If you want a link from Wikipedia, it will be a hard process. Here's a four-step strategy that will potentially get you that link. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010
Byrne & Goddard |
The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data This article will outline some of the benefits that linked data could have for libraries, will discuss some of the non-technical obstacles that we face in moving forward, and will finally offer suggestions for practical ways in which libraries can participate in the development of the semantic web. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2008
William Badke |
What to Do With Wikipedia Often banned by professors, panned by traditional reference book publishers, and embraced by just about everyone else, Wikipedia marches on like a great beast, growing larger and more commanding every day. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
Information Today
January 5, 2016 |
Wikipedia Celebrates Its 15th Birthday With Librarian-Centric Campaign The Wikipedia Library team invites librarians to help Wikipedia celebrate its 15th birthday on Jan. 15, 2016, by adding one reference to any Wikipedia article. |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
John C. Dvorak |
Why Wikipedia Just Gets Better You don't think I'm here as a Wikipedia booster without some deeper commentary, do you? There has to be something wrong with it, since the idea is utopian, and utopian ideas are bound to fail in the long term. |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
D-Lib
October 2001
Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use... |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 10, 2014
Peter Houston |
Fixing Wikipedia Will Pharma join a growing effort to make the world's leading online health information resource more relevant to providers and safer for patients? |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Leta hendricks |
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection (HC&TC) is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture for the Columbus academic, art, business, and cultural communities. |
D-Lib
October 2006
Judith M. Panitch |
Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is aggressively expanding its digital library program. |
Information Today
July 16, 2015 |
EBSCO Health Gives Wikipedia Access to Its Clinical Reference Solution Up to 300 Wikipedia editors who meet the qualifications set out by this partnership will get free accounts for DynaMed Plus. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 23, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) Harvard Business School professors conduct a case study on how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. |
Information Today
May 13, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, announced a new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Moore, Baru, Rajasekar, Ludaescher, et al. |
Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 2 A discussion of the four major components of a persistent archive system: support for ingestion, archival storage, information discovery, and presentation of the collection. Includes a description of a one million message persistent E-mail collection. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 54
David Bradley |
Interview with Martin Walker This professor focuses his research on green chemistry and the use of fluorous biphasic systems. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2015
Michael Blanding |
Which Has More Bias? Wikipedia or the Encyclopedia Britannica By identifying politically biased language in Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia, Feng Zhu hopes to learn whether professional editors or open-sourced experts provide the most objective entries. |
Macworld
October 31, 2005
Teague & Teague |
Encyclopedia Software Two of the most popular physical encyclopedias, World Book and Encyclopedia Britannica, have recently updated their virtual equivalents. Plus, the free Wikipedia Dashboard widget now makes it even easier to look up information. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wikipedia vs. the World With Google's Knol, Yahoo! Answers, and Answers.com's WikiAnswers, the number of sites looking to cash in on the Web 2.0 movement of user-created reference content is growing exponentially. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Rose Holley |
Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It? Known facts about crowdsourcing are presented and helpful tips and strategies for libraries beginning to crowdsource are given. |
Wired
March 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created Wikipedia. |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
Wikipedia's New iOS App Is Designed To Make You Fall Down Rabbit Holes The new Wikipedia app for iOS was designed, first and foremost, for two things: speed and curiosity. |
Information Today
July 7, 2011 |
W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Calls for Public Comment The W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group has been chartered from May 2010 through August 2011 to prepare a series of reports on the existing and potential use of linked data technology for publishing library data. |
| Reactive Reports |
Star Picks Web links for chemists. |
Information Today
February 22, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Announces $2 Million Grant From Google This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
Information Today
October 30, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Citizendium: A Kinder, Truer Wikipedia? Over the last year, Wikipedia online encyclopedia has faced an international furor over its reliability and accuracy. |
Search Engine Watch
July 19, 2010
Eli Goodman |
How Search is Making us Smarter Online search has clearly evolved to become the de facto answer delivery system for our questions. How search opens learning opportunities to us every day. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary How the online "temple of the mind" became the go-to site for looking stuff up: A drama told in the open-source style of Wikipedia. |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2011 |
Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia Balancing Act The Wikipedia founder speaks on empowering his army of volunteers while still maintaining control of the site -- and not selling out. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
Information Today
December 17, 2007 |
Wikis Go Printable The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. announced a partnership that will make it possible to obtain high quality print and word processor copies of articles from Wikipedia and other wiki educational resources. |
Information Today
December 18, 2008
Marydee Ojala |
Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message? |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012
Kalev H. Leetaru |
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given rise to a demand for extracting and indexing the spatial information in large textual archives. |
Search Engine Watch
July 22, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Why Links are Like Shoes The man with no links cried until he met the man with no SEO. This week you'll find out why all SEOs should want to be the Zappos of link building. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Daniel J. Cohen |
From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections High-quality digitization and thorough text markup may be attractive for those creating digital collections, but a familiarity with information theory and data-mining techniques makes one realize that it may be more worthwhile to digitize a greater number of books or documents at a lower standard for the same cost. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2012
Christina Chaey |
4 Ways The New Wikidata Will Improve Wikipedia The Wikimedia Foundation completes its first phase of development for Wikidata in August. The database will help streamline Wikipedia content by focusing on facts and figures, cutting out subjectivity, and increasing transparency. |
Chemistry World
February 24, 2006
Jon Evans |
Information Free-for-All The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could become the main source of chemical information in 5-10 years, according to a professional chemist. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Rival Whacks at Wikipedia Can Citizendium take Wikipedia down a few notches just when the Wiki universe looks to expand? |
Reason
June 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
