Monday, June 11, 2007
from George Mason University uses digital media and computer technology to democratize history. It's a pretty great resource. They've been working on Zotero, a Firefox citation management extension. A recent post Zotero & Wikipedia: Perfect Together discusses historians using this tool to contribute to Wikipedia:
'By incorporating print-based references in Wikipedia articles, users help to bring offline resources into new relationships with online resources. Users can not only export Zotero references into Wikipedia, they can also import Wikipedia references into Zotero. This read/write relationship promises to allow information to better circulate through various scholarly communication networks.'
It's a remarkable development, I think, in the growth of Wikipedia as a popular and scholarly resource.
'By incorporating print-based references in Wikipedia articles, users help to bring offline resources into new relationships with online resources. Users can not only export Zotero references into Wikipedia, they can also import Wikipedia references into Zotero. This read/write relationship promises to allow information to better circulate through various scholarly communication networks.'
It's a remarkable development, I think, in the growth of Wikipedia as a popular and scholarly resource.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Fans of local used bookstore Juniper Books will appreciate that some of its inventory is searchable through ABE books.
