The sheer number of fields that are intensely interested in wiki knowledge communities is staggering. ...
Why are wiki knowledge projects of such intense and broad-based interest?
There’s a good reason. It’s because of what wiki knowledge projects are.
They are a new thing under the sun: international communities of volunteers that collaboratively produce free knowledge, information of use to everyone, distributed online; and, in the form of Wikipedia and soon the Citizendium too, they are remarkably huge and well-used. ...
But there is an even more essential explanation: wiki knowledge projects are an enormous coming-together of people to understand the world. ...
I think most people have vaguely, but not quite, realized that we are coming to grips with a new kind of knowledge institution– one that has the potential to be as powerful as any that has come before it, or more so. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 1/26/2009 03:21:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
