There is a cluster of projects around MetaScholar and the Ockham project that are working on this kind of framework: http://www.metascholar.org/ and http://www.ockham.org/ . I haven't kept up with them recently to see what's actually been deployed, though. They are producing open-source tools to do this kind of work, so it would be interesting to try them out in the digital medieval community.
Among digitization projects the most radical I'm aware of is Project Runeberg in Sweden, which allows users to proofread the OCR text against the page images and submit corrections. http://runeberg.org (the server seems to be slow at the moment, though). Sample page: http://runeberg.org/hagberg/e/0046.html .
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:17 PM To: Digital Community mailing list Subject: [dm-l] virtual commons
At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project.
Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing.
-d
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