Wikis in Scholarly Publishing

* Article: Wikis in scholarly publishing. Daniel Mietchen, Gregor Hagedorn et al.

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(This page served to draft a contribution to a special issue of Information Services and Use that is dedicated to the APE 2011 conference at which the talk linked from above was given. The issue will be Open Access, authors retain copyright, and our drafting the paper on this wiki has been approved by the publisher.)

Abstract

"Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimulate further discussion, the article itself was drafted on Species-ID - http://species-id.net; a wiki that hosts a prototype for wiki-based scholarly publishing - where it can be updated, expanded or otherwise improved."