ure, Wikipedia still has a page for everything from Charlemagne to Chewbacca, but it seems more attention now is focused on kick-back-and-have-fun social networks, not hit-the-books-and-contribute-some-research wikis. Has the wiki well run dry?
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth.
Collaborative Knowledge Management, powered by the Semantic Web
Wikis and social software have revolutionized the ways we create and distribute knowledge. The Semantic Web has already begun to transform the ways we maintain, discover and share knowledge across platforms.
The KiWi - "Knowledge in a Wiki" - project proposes a new approach to knowledge management that combines the wiki philosophy with the intelligence and methods of the Semantic Web.
Pages to get you started:
* KiWi-Vision: An introduction to KiWi's core ideas, ideal for non-technical audiences.
* KiWi-System: Learn how KiWi aims to break system and information boundaries!
* The Use Cases: Of particular interest for businesses and people from the industry.
* KiWi is a blogger! Read what the project members have been up to.
* Project Wiki: Wiki and internal workspace for KiWi project members (NOT identical with KiWi).
adamengst writes in with good news for anyone who needs to collaborate remotely on a writing or editing project — coding too. It's especially good news for those using Windows and Linux. Mac users have had SubEthaEdit for a few years now. With EtherPad, two or more people can edit a document and see all the edits simultaneously.
The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it.
Calendar Girl lives and works in London where her disco alter-ego is a vocalist for big fun funkateers Freeform Five. She started Calendar Songs in October 2006 as a project that could only live online as people joined the project as listeners and collabo
27 de junho de 2008, 8:48 Chegou a hora de reinventar a lista de discussão por e-mail. Ouça. Por René de Paula Jr http://webinsider.uol.com.br/index.php/2008/06/27/a-arquitetura-da-colaboracao/
The personal edition of UNA. The personal edition of UNA has the same functionality as the collaborative edition, except that only one user is allowed. This allows you to try out the UNA environment without having your own server. For trying the colla
In a previous essay, I wrote about the cognitive aspect of tagging - describing how people tag, and why they find it easy. There is another, equally important aspect of tagging that I did not touch upon - the "why" of tagging. Why do people tag? For many,
Free web-based education site with comprehensive features for teachers, students and parents.
Anyone can teach and/or learn using the system, whether it's at school, at home, or on the move.
Generic Model Organism Database project, a collection of open source software tools for creating and managing genome-scale biological databases. You can use it to create a small laboratory database of genome annotations, or a large web-accessible community database. GMOD tools are in use at many large and small community databases.
Social Science Aspects of the iPlant Collaborative
The purpose of the social science arm of iPlant is three-fold. First, social science research can be leveraged to enhance development of iPlant collaborative tools. Second, social science research can help to enhance adoption and diffusion of the iPlant collaborative. Third, the iPlant collaborative provides a unique opportunity to collect data in order to study how a collaborative such as this evolves and, more importantly, sustains itself over time.
Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited. The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.
Prem Melville and Raymond J. Mooney and Ramadass Nagarajan. Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Improved Recommendations. Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence(AAAI-2002),
pp. 187-192, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002
"role and nature of authority in organizational schemes, and the intersection of authority with an organizational scheme’s purpose [considered] for three services often associated with social classification systems: • Indexing of personal collections.
W. Willett, J. Heer, J. Hellerstein, and M. Agrawala. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, page 3131–3140. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2011)