Collaborative Publishing - Read/Write Web

LAUC-B Web 2.0 Conference Proposal

Length of session: 90 minutes

An examination of collaborative document editing tools used in various academic settings, including libraries, instruction, and off-site hosted solutions.

This session will include hands-on instruction on how to create wiki web pages.

Structure of session:

1. Provide real examples of collaborative publishing
2. Review of the Literature
3. Hands-on wiki page creation

Collaborative (Read/Write) Publishing Examples

We will quickly cover the landscape of what's happening in the world of collaborative document editing.

Wikis in Libraries

• Open World Cat WikiD user generated content added to the catalog
• University of Minnesota - staff side of UofM's site.
• Doucette Library of Teaching Resources (University of Calgary) - provides Education students with teaching resources for ECS to high school.
• Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki - collection of business information resources
• St. Joseph County Public Library's Subject Guides

Hosted Wikis (off-site)

• PBwiki - Peanut Butter Wiki - free and pay models. Nice templates for courses and syllabi.
• JotSpot (now google) - recently acquired by google and new accounts currently closed. Possibly will resurface as part of google's office suite. Existing accounts still work.

Web-based Word Processing

(possible solutions to lack of productivity software on the public computers)

• Google Docs & Spreadsheets
• zoho: office suite - includes wiki and presentation

Semantic wikis

• "A semantic wiki is a wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages.(more...)
• dabbleDB

Other collaborative tools for students

• Studicious - collaborative note taking

On Site Wikis - Hosted On Organizational Servers

• Show wikimatrix or wikipedia comparison site (100s of wikis) - open source v. pay enterprise
• PmWki - what we have in the library
• Collaborative Media -> IS&T - what they are up to