Britannica opens up a little
See here and here and here and here. I’ll have to assess this later; I have some pre-launch materials to prepare myself! But this looks like a welcome development. The questions I’ll have in mind as I read through the description are these. (1) Will this actually increase the number of credible articles EB has on offer? (2) Will there actually be very much collaboration going on? (3) Are there any movements toward making EB’s main encyclopedia content free?
Without plans to increase the total number of articles on offer, robust freedom, and radical collaboration, EB is not, in fact, adopting the Citizendium model. It would be adopting something more like the BBC’s model: h2g2. I’ll certainly keep an open mind, however; I know they’ve been talking about how to leverage something like a wiki model since 2005 at the very earliest.
Wow. Sounds like they looked at and are incorporating the knol model a great deal, as well.
Comment by Stephen Ewen — June 7, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
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