Web 2.0 interactivity in open access repositories

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 703-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Shafi ◽  
Sumeer Gul ◽  
Tariq Ahmad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0

Twin Wiki Wonders? Wikipedia and Wikibooks as Powerful Tools for Online Collaborative Writing

2011 ◽  
pp. 1078-1097
Author(s):  
Meng-Fen Grace Lin ◽  
Curtis J. Bonk ◽  
Suthiporn Sajjapanroj
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Shed Light

Web 2.0 technologies empower individuals to contribute thoughts and ideas rather than passively survey online content and resources. Such participatory environments foster opportunities for community building and knowledge sharing, while encouraging the creation of artifacts beyond what any single person could accomplish alone. In this chapter, we investigate the emergence and growth of two of such environments: the highly popular Wikipedia site and its sister project, Wikibooks. Wikipedia has grown out of trends for free and open access to Web tools and resources. While Wikipedians edit, contribute, and monitor distinct pieces of information or pages of documents, Wikibookians must focus on larger chunks of knowledge, including book modules or chapters as well as entire books. Several key differences between these two types of wiki environments are explored. In addition, surveys and interviews, conducted with Wikibookians, shed light on their challenges, frustrations, and successes.

Twin Wiki Wonders? Wikipedia and Wikibooks as Powerful Tools for Online Collaborative Writing

2011 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Meng-Fen Grace Lin ◽  
Curtis J. Bonk ◽  
Suthiporn Sajjapanroj
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Online Content ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Shed Light

Web 2.0 technologies empower individuals to contribute thoughts and ideas rather than passively survey online content and resources. Such participatory environments foster opportunities for community building and knowledge sharing, while encouraging the creation of artifacts beyond what any single person could accomplish alone. In this chapter, we investigate the emergence and growth of two of such environments: the highly popular Wikipedia site and its sister project, Wikibooks. Wikipedia has grown out of trends for free and open access to Web tools and resources. While Wikipedians edit, contribute, and monitor distinct pieces of information or pages of documents, Wikibookians must focus on larger chunks of knowledge, including book modules or chapters as well as entire books. Several key differences between these two types of wiki environments are explored. In addition, surveys and interviews, conducted with Wikibookians, shed light on their challenges, frustrations, and successes.

Building an open access African studies repository using Web 2.0 principles

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Winterbottom ◽  
James North
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Online Tools

This paper describes the aims and design of an open access African Studies Repository (ASR) (http://www.africanstudiesrepository.org/) that is under development. The ASR is a relational database compatible with the open repository platform DSpace but incorporating the participatory online tools collectively known as ‘Web 2.0’. The aim of the ASR is to create a space where everyone who works on Africa, both inside and outside the continent, can store their work, access useful resources, make contacts, and join discussions.

scholarly journals “PI OF THE SKY” OFF-LINE EXPERIMENT WITH GLORIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
Ariel Majcher ◽  
Arkadiusz Cwiek ◽  
Mikołaj Cwiok ◽  
Lech Mankiewicz ◽  
Marcin Zaremba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Research Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Robotic Telescopes ◽  
Robotic Telescope ◽  
The Web

GLORIA is the first free and open-access network of robotic telescopes in the world. Based on the Web 2.0 environment, amateur and professional users can do research in astronomy by observing with robotic telescope, and/or analyzing data acquired with GLORIA, or from other free access databases. The GLORIA project develops free standards, protocols and tools for controlling Robotic Telescopes and related instrumentation, for scheduling observations in the telescope network, and for conducting so-called off-line experiments based on the analysis of astronomical data. This contribution summarizes the implementation and results from the first research level off-line demonstrator experiment implemented in GLORIA, which was based on data collected with the “Pi of the Sky” telescope in Chile.

scholarly journals Social Media and Learning Environments: Shifting Perspectives on the Locus of Control

in education ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen S. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Environment Design ◽  
E Learning

In the past, centralised technology departments had major influence over the choices of learning applications in higher education. With the emergence of freely available Web 2.0 and open-access tools, instructors and designers have been given greater ability to customize e-learning. This paper examines the historical roots of the impacts of authority from centralised technology units to an emerging user-centric control over learning environment design in higher education. A case study is used to illustrate the potentials and pitfalls in this more decentralised configuration for both learning and organization.Keywords: learning applications; higher education; Web 2.0; e-learning; open-access tools

Datafication of the “E-Learning Faculty Modules” for Next Steps

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-237
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Web 2.0 Technology ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Access Data

Since its origin in 2011, the E-Learning Faculty Modules (built on a MediaWiki understructure) has evolved into a resource with over 130 articles in three tiers: Beginners' Studio, E-Learning Central, and Advanced Workshop. This resource has remained focused on supporting online instructors in their work. Since this resource is built in an open-source way on a designed wiki structure, it is possible to data-fy various aspects of the wiki: (1) the emergent wiki-hosted contents, (2) user page views, and (3) observable gaps with ideas for next steps. This chapter demonstrates some of the easy-access data about online usage of an open-access open-source resource distributed through a Web 2.0 technology.

scholarly journals 0324 2B-Alert Web 2.0: An Open-access Tool to Determine Caffeine Doses That Optimize Alertness

SLEEP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A132-A133
Author(s):  
Kamal Kumar ◽  
Francisco Vital-Lopez ◽  
Sridhar Ramakrishnan ◽  
Tracy J Doty ◽  
Thomas J Balkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0
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