Supporting content curation communities: The case of the Encyclopedia of Life

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1092-1107

  Rotman, Dana ^a   Procita, Kezia ^a   Hansen, Derek ^a   Sims Parr, Cynthia ^b   Preece, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; computer mediated communications; human computer interaction

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CONTENT CREATION; CROWDSOURCING; CURATION; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIVES; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; OPEN ACCESS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SURVEY DATA; WIKIPEDIA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84861336024     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22633     Document Type: Review

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