Location

KIPJ G

Session Type

Event

Start Date

29-4-2015 1:50 PM

End Date

29-4-2015 2:35 PM

Abstract

(with apologies to the Bard: quote modified from Hamlet, 1.5.4950.)

The Folger Shakespeare Library’s wiki, Folgerpedia, performs a number of functions for the institution and its community: it makes visible scholarly activities, maintains institutional history, and serves as a site of research on Shakespeare and early modern topics. Primary audiences for the Folger—and thus, for Folgerpedia—include scholars, students (K12 and college level), generalpublic enthusiasts, and library professionals. Folgerpedia’s mission is to create and support the collaborative generation of information surrounding our collection, Library, institution, programming, and education initiatives.

One of the challenges facing Folgerpedia is to foster a space that provides scholars, students, and enthusiasts with quality information while ensuring that contributors, including invited scholars and Folger staff, find both a sense of community and are ensured credit for their contributions. Generalpublic and student users have full reading access to the content of Folgerpedia, while scholars and Folger staff are invited to contribute articles. Finally, material is being ingested and archived from the former version of folger.edu, with staff serving as editors.

The Folger’s academic profile and reputation, coupled to the folger.edu domain, makes the wiki highly discoverable by search engines and highly credible to student researchers. In many ways, Folgerpedia functions as a discovery space for our collections and early modern topics, allowing scholars of many levels to connect with new aspects of our holdings. This talk will present the challenges, techniques, and (hopefully) triumphs of the Folger’s first year of facilitating collaboration in a public wiki space.

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Apr 29th, 1:50 PM Apr 29th, 2:35 PM

'O wiki'd wit and gift, that have the power / So to seduce!': Creating a Public Collaborative Digital Space for a Special Collections Environment

KIPJ G

(with apologies to the Bard: quote modified from Hamlet, 1.5.4950.)

The Folger Shakespeare Library’s wiki, Folgerpedia, performs a number of functions for the institution and its community: it makes visible scholarly activities, maintains institutional history, and serves as a site of research on Shakespeare and early modern topics. Primary audiences for the Folger—and thus, for Folgerpedia—include scholars, students (K12 and college level), generalpublic enthusiasts, and library professionals. Folgerpedia’s mission is to create and support the collaborative generation of information surrounding our collection, Library, institution, programming, and education initiatives.

One of the challenges facing Folgerpedia is to foster a space that provides scholars, students, and enthusiasts with quality information while ensuring that contributors, including invited scholars and Folger staff, find both a sense of community and are ensured credit for their contributions. Generalpublic and student users have full reading access to the content of Folgerpedia, while scholars and Folger staff are invited to contribute articles. Finally, material is being ingested and archived from the former version of folger.edu, with staff serving as editors.

The Folger’s academic profile and reputation, coupled to the folger.edu domain, makes the wiki highly discoverable by search engines and highly credible to student researchers. In many ways, Folgerpedia functions as a discovery space for our collections and early modern topics, allowing scholars of many levels to connect with new aspects of our holdings. This talk will present the challenges, techniques, and (hopefully) triumphs of the Folger’s first year of facilitating collaboration in a public wiki space.