Advanced Wiki’ing with Library Tools
September 27th, 2004The Digital Librarian writes:
“[I]t occurred to me while talking with some of my colleagues who work in our University Archives that linking together a finding aid with Wiki functionality might bring together an interesting system. Imagine if users could leave behind comments or annotations to a finding aid – providing additional information related to the materials located by the finding aid. It would open the door to sharing research experiences, allowing for collaborative research, and making it easier for future researchers to find the materials they need in a particular collection. Of course, it would also open up the possibility of allowing incorrect information to be added, but again, Wikis are amazingly good at allowing community correction of incorrect or inappropriate information.”
I actually got the chills after reading that paragraph. This is a perfect implementation of wikis into the library environment. Here’s another one: How about a wiki for FARQs (Frequently Asked Reference Questions)?
