[GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions

[E. Hoorn]

This is known as commons-based peer production.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production

Esther

On 9-8-2012 13:02, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com
> <mailto:velterop at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     No, 27,995 still to be converted :-)
>
>     Jan
>
> No,
>     27995 - x
> where x is the number of new people working in an extended community
> mode. The 250,000 people who have helped to create Open Street Map and
> get it accepted as among the highest quality and most useful
> cartographic product didn't come from old-school cartographers. They
> came from all walks, including cyclists and walkers. Wikipedia didn't
> come from converted academics, it came from people outside academia
> and encyclopedias. Academia (with a very few exceptions) howled it
> down and it has succeeded in spite. (It will, whether we like it or
> not, become a mainstream component of scientific communication). In
> similar mode there will be a new type of scholarly communication.
>
> P.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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