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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific: A Semantic Web-based Content Management System

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) is a Rich Internet Application with a Web Services architecture used to manage and navigate 400 objects from the Australian Museum’s (http://www.austmus.gov.au/) Pacific Island collections. This project tests a new means of facilitating access for Indigenous people and researchers to museum-based digital collections whose artefacts are physically distributed [...]

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Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

In a move to take on Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica is inviting the hoi polloi to edit, enhance and contribute to its online version. New features enabling the inclusion of this user-generated content will be rolled out on the encyclopedia’s website over the next 24 hours, Britannica’s president, Jorge Cauz, said in an interview today (link)

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From Community to Gemeinschaft: Belief or Truth?

Community is a hackneyed phrase. It is like the word ‘democracy’ or ‘friends’ or ‘freedom’; the more it is spoken, the less of it there is. There is a lot of talk (again) about online communities; especially considering that it is a central component of Web2.0. But what is a community? I grew up in [...]

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Enterprise Wiki

OK, lets kill email. Here is an article for the Age iin Melbourne about enterpirse wikis. Sean Killeen works the wiki way. Like many modern executives Mr Killeen – the head of global product management at Australian hearing implant maker Cochlear – gets hundreds of emails a day, half of which are destined for the [...]

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