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Title:
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AUSTRIA-FORUM: A CITABLE WEB ENCYCLOPEDIA |
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Author(s):
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Denis Helic , Hermann Maurer , Bebo White |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-68-3 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Dirk Ifenthaler |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Web encyclopedia, web publishing, information quality, context-aware web publishing. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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19 |
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Last Page:
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26 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Recent advances in Web community systems changed the ways in which the Web users operate the system. Only a
couple of years ago the majority of the Web users merely consumed the content published by certifiable organizations
and persons. Nowadays, users are increasingly publishers of the content - the most prominent example of such a
development is Wikipedia. Due to combination of Wikipedia and modern search engines such as Google that provide
easy access to information the following phenomenon has been recently observed. Very often, the Web users start and
finish their Web activities with Google and Wikipedia they use information that they find there without any critical
inspection and for whatever uses they might need it. This situation leads to a number of problems in different areas such
as education, scientific publishing, or journalism to say the least. The problems include but are not limited to plagiarism
problem, uncertainty of information, or fragmented knowledge. In this paper we present a system called Austria-Forum
that, for a local Austrian context, tries to remedy these problems by combining promising community aspects with more
formal editorial publishing concepts. The result is a Web encyclopedia that guarantees the quality of easy accessible
information. Obviously, Austria-Forum can not match the scale of Wikipedia but it provides mechanisms for easy
integration with other similar contextualized Web encyclopedias. |
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