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Getting Organized: Using Del.icio and Wikis to organize library content “Wikis”

Getting Organized: Using Del.icio.us and Wikis to organize library content “Wikis”. Betsy Like Webster Veterinary Library Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine 508-839-7925 ♦ betsy.like@tufts.edu. What are wikis?. Wiki

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Getting Organized: Using Del.icio and Wikis to organize library content “Wikis”

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  1. Getting Organized: Using Del.icio.us and Wikis to organize library content“Wikis” Betsy Like Webster Veterinary Library Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine 508-839-7925 ♦ betsy.like@tufts.edu

  2. What are wikis? Wiki A wiki is a type of website that lets anyone create and edit its pages. The word is Internet slang. The word Wiki is short for WikiWikiWeb. Wikiwiki is a word from Hawaiian, meaning "fast" or "speed". . . . Every wiki can be changed, or edited by everyone, although some important pages cannot be changed by anyone. Wikis are central places where we all can share information with each other, people can add new information, and then people read them. Wikis allow information from all around the world to be collection. - from Wikipedia, http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

  3. Wiki Pros & Cons • anyone can edit • content is protected by an active wiki community • easy to learn and use – a flexible tool which can be used for a wide range of applications • can work collaboratively and share documents • lots of software options open source wiki farms fee-based locally installed hosted

  4. Wiki Pros & Cons • anyone can edit • needs to be managed to maintain organization, usability, accuracy, etc. • needs to be managed to control spam and vandalism • requires an Internet connection

  5. Wiki Examples

  6. Wiki Search Engines

  7. Collaborative Sites • Google Docs, http://docs.google.com (need a Google account) • LabMeeting, http://www.labmeeting.com/ • Library of Congress' Flickr photostream, http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

  8. Wikis @ Tufts • John A Seaverns Equine Collection • Veterinary Public Health Grant Project • Aquapedia • Dagomba Dance Drumming • Galactic Ecosystems • Tufts Nutrition & Genomics Laboratory • Tufts Physics & Astronomy Department

  9. Wikis @ … Mount Wachusett Community College • MWCC Library Staff Manual, http://mwcclibrarymanual.pbworks.com Worcester Public Library Wikis • WPL Reference Division Info, http://sites.google.com/site/wplrefe/Home • other wikis

  10. Wikis to play with • PBWiki, http://pbwiki.com/academic.wiki http://cmrlsarc.pbwiki.com email: betsy.like@tufts.edu password: cmrlsarc help: http://usermanual.pbworks.com/FrontPage notes: 2GB of storage (free edition), edit lock feature, wysiwyg or html, handles plugins

  11. Wikis to play with • MindTouch Deki Express, http://www.mindtouch.com/Products/Deki_Express http://cmrslarc.wik.is/ username: Admin password: cmrlsarc help: http://www.mindtouch.com/User_Manual

  12. Wikis to play with • Confluence, http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ http://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/display/ CMRLSARC/ help: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/ DOC/Confluence+User+Guide

  13. Resources • Wiki Farms, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiFarms (reviews of wiki hosts) • Why Wiki Works, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks • Why Wiki Works Not, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorksNot

  14. Resources • Tapscott D, Williams AD. Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything. New York: Portfolio, 2006. • What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects) by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html • WikiEducator Tutorials, http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Contents • WikiMatrix, http://www.wikimatrix.org/

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