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Charbonneau, Olivier (2007), The do it yourself librarian. Delivered at Canadian Library Association (CLA), Atlantic Provinces Library Association (APLA) and Newfoundland and Labrador Library Association (NLLA) National Conference and Trade Show, St-John's, Newfoundland (Canada). (Présentation déposée sur E-LIS)

"Blogs, wikis, listservs, forums, social networking and other new exciting technologies provide for unprecedented possibilities for collaboration, preservation and dissemination of information. These have been traditional roles for libraries but now, more and more enthusiasts are developing their own personal corner of the information commons. As the debate on how the “Web 2.0” will impact our profession rages on, some institutions are exploring the possibilities inherent in these technologies. This session presents these concepts through concrete examples and to provide insight on how they can be used to retain patrons, restructure services and regenerate libraries into entities that engage their communities. Conference session given on Friday May 25th 2007 at the Canadian Library Association (CLA), Atlantic Provinces Library Association (APLA) and Newfoundland and Labrador Library Association (NLLA) National Conference and Trade Show in St-John's, Newfoundland (Canada)."

"What is Veropedia?
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.

So is this just another mirror?
Absolutely not! In order to be included in Veropedia, articles must meet very strict criteria of our own. There can be no cleanup tags, no "citation needed" tags, no disambiguation links, no dead external links, and no fair use images. In addition, each article will be given to recognized academics and experts to review. These experts can either provide their stamp of approval or make suggestions as to how the article can be improved further. In that way, users will know that the article is reliable.

So is this an expert-driven project, like Citizendium?
Not at all. Our material is written by Wikipedia contributors. The role of experts and academics will be to check it and, ideally, approve it. Their comments will be given back to our contributors to incorporate back into the articles to make them even better. We provide a meta-layer for Wikipedia, or in simpler terms, if you think of Wikipedia as a diamond mine, we think of ourselves as jewelers who provide a finished product to the public. We think of this as true collaboration.

Can Veropedia articles be improved?
Certainly, but the work to improve the article takes place on Wikipedia, and the newer version is imported back to Veropedia. In that way, both Wikipedia and Veropedia benefit from better quality content.

Does Veropedia have all of Wikipedia's articles?
No, in fact, at this early stage, we have a very small fraction of the articles in Wikipedia. While we are growing every day, our focus is on the core articles of a good set of encyclopedias, that will be most useful to students and teachers. Our focus is and always will be on the quality of our articles, rather than on their number." [ suite ]

Via Information Today

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Lire également ce billet sur affordance.info à propos de Wikidashboard

Five Weeks to a Social Library : de la mi-février à la mi-mars 2007

Voir chez Marlène ici et ici

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Semaine 1 : blogs
Semaine 2 : rss et bookmarks collaboratifs
Semaine 3 : wikis + ici
Semaine 4 : réseaux sociaux, Flickr, ...
Semaine 5 : softwares orientés 2.0

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Màj (7 mars 07): cf. aussi Learning 2.0 (via bibliobsession)
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Màj (8 mars 07): quelques exemples de BU américaines proposant des services "orientés 2.0"
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Màj (26 mars 07): lire ici les conclusions et les propositions pour les futures 5 semaines (par Meredith Farkas)

Il y a une dizaine de jours, Yahoo! a lancé un nouveau service: Yahoo!Pipes.

"Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant."

"[...] des possibilités quasi-infinies de mettre en place diverses actions relevant de la recherche d'information, sur n'importe quelle(s) source(s), originelle(s) ou composite(s)." *

Si on en croit la biblio-blogosphère de référence, il s'agit d'un service qui fera évoluer de manière importante nos habitudes de recherche d'information.

* A lire sur affordance.info (+ les liens signalés dans le post)

Màj (2 mars 07): lire aussi

JotSpot, créé en 2004 à Palo Alto par deux ex de Excite, propose une solution wiki orientée entreprise (alors que la plupart des wikis se limitent au format texte, JotSpot permet de créer des feuilles de calcul, des calendriers, des documents, des galeries de photos. Cette application peut être utilisée pour gérer des projets, construire un intranet, partager des fichiers, etc.). A la suite de ce rachat, l'utilisation de ce produit sera gratuite (la gratuité selon Google, je veux dire). Ce qui n'est pas négligeable.

Màj (1 nov.): cf. démo du produit (avant le rachat)