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Ergebnisse des Fachprojektes "Einbindung von Frage-Antwort-Diensten in die Web-Suche" am Department Information der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (WS 2007/2008).

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Inhalt: SESSION: Building and using cultural digital libraries Primarily history: historians and the search for primary source materials (Helen R. Tibbo) - Using the Gamera framework for the recognition of cultural heritage materials (Michael Droettboom, Ichiro Fujinaga, Karl MacMillan, G. Sayeed Chouhury, Tim DiLauro, Mark Patton, Teal Anderson) - Supporting access to large digital oral history archives (Samuel Gustman, Dagobert Soergel, Douglas Oard, William Byrne, Michael Picheny, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Douglas Greenberg) SESSION: Summarization and question answering Using sentence-selection heuristics to rank text segments in TXTRACTOR (Daniel McDonald, Hsinchun Chen) - Using librarian techniques in automatic text summarization for information retrieval (Min-Yen Kan, Judith L. Klavans) - QuASM: a system for question answering using semi-structured data (David Pinto, Michael Branstein, Ryan Coleman, W. Bruce Croft, Matthew King, Wei Li, Xing Wei) SESSION: Studying users Reading-in-the-small: a study of reading on small form factor devices (Catherine C. Marshall, Christine Ruotolo) - A graph-based recommender system for digital library (Zan Huang, Wingyan Chung, Thian-Huat Ong, Hsinchun Chen) - The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior (Diane Kelly, Colleen Cool) SESSION: Classification and browsing A language modelling approach to relevance profiling for document browsing (David J. Harper, Sara Coulthard, Sun Yixing) - Compound descriptors in context: a matching function for classifications and thesauri (Douglas Tudhope, Ceri Binding, Dorothee Blocks, Daniel Cunliffe) - Structuring keyword-based queries for web databases (Rodrigo C. Vieira, Pavel Calado, Altigran S. da Silva, Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto) - An approach to automatic classification of text for information retrieval (Hong Cui, P. Bryan Heidorn, Hong Zhang)
SESSION: A digital libraries for education Middle school children's use of the ARTEMIS digital library (June Abbas, Cathleen Norris, Elliott Soloway) - Partnership reviewing: a cooperative approach for peer review of complex educational resources (John Weatherley, Tamara Sumner, Michael Khoo, Michael Wright, Marcel Hoffmann) - A digital library for geography examination resources (Lian-Heong Chua, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Ee-Peng Lim, Zehua Liu, Rebecca Pei-Hui Ang) - Digital library services for authors of learning materials (Flora McMartin, Youki Terada) SESSION: Novel search environments Integration of simultaneous searching and reference linking across bibliographic resources on the web (William H. Mischo, Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole) - Exploring discussion lists: steps and directions (Paula S. Newman) - Comparison of two approaches to building a vertical search tool: a case study in the nanotechnology domain (Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen, Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Yi Qin, Wai-Ki Sung, Daniel McDonald) SESSION: Video and multimedia digital libraries A multilingual, multimodal digital video library system (Michael R. Lyu, Edward Yau, Sam Sze) - A digital library data model for music (Natalia Minibayeva, Jon W. Dunn) - Video-cuebik: adapting image search to video shots (Alexander G. Hauptmann, Norman D. Papernick) - Virtual multimedia libraries built from the web (Neil C. Rowe) - Multi-modal information retrieval from broadcast video using OCR and speech recognition (Alexander G. Hauptmann, Rong Jin, Tobun Dorbin Ng) SESSION: OAI application Extending SDARTS: extracting metadata from web databases and interfacing with the open archives initiative (Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Tom Barry, Luis Gravano) - Using the open archives initiative protocols with EAD (Christopher J. Prom, Thomas G. Habing) - Preservation and transition of NCSTRL using an OAI-based architecture (H. Anan, X. Liu, K. Maly, M. Nelson, M. Zubair, J. C. French, E. Fox, P. Shivakumar) - Integrating harvesting into digital library content (David A. Smith, Anne Mahoney, Gregory Crane) SESSION: Searching across language, time, and space Harvesting translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual digital libraries (Ray R. Larson, Fredric Gey, Aitao Chen) - Detecting events with date and place information in unstructured text (David A. Smith) - Using sharable ontology to retrieve historical images (Von-Wun Soo, Chen-Yu Lee, Jaw Jium Yeh, Ching-chih Chen) - Towards an electronic variorum edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote:: visualizations that support preparation (Rajiv Kochumman, Carlos Monroy, Richard Furuta, Arpita Goenka, Eduardo Urbina, Erendira Melgoza)
SESSION: NSDL Core services in the architecture of the national science digital library (NSDL) (Carl Lagoze, William Arms, Stoney Gan, Diane Hillmann, Christopher Ingram, Dean Krafft, Richard Marisa, Jon Phipps, John Saylor, Carol Terrizzi, Walter Hoehn, David Millman, James Allan, Sergio Guzman-Lara, Tom Kalt) - Creating virtual collections in digital libraries: benefits and implementation issues (Gary Geisler, Sarah Giersch, David McArthur, Marty McClelland) - Ontology services for curriculum development in NSDL (Amarnath Gupta, Bertram Ludäscher, Reagan W. Moore) - Interactive digital library resource information system: a web portal for digital library education (Ahmad Rafee Che Kassim, Thomas R. Kochtanek) SESSION: Digital library communities and change Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor (Elke Duncker) - Trust and epistemic communities in biodiversity data sharing (Nancy A. Van House) - Evaluation of digital community information systems (K. T. Unruh, K. E. Pettigrew, J. C. Durrance) - Adapting digital libraries to continual evolution (Bruce R. Barkstrom, Melinda Finch, Michelle Ferebee, Calvin Mackey) SESSION: Models and tools for generating digital libraries Localizing experience of digital content via structural metadata (Naomi Dushay) - Collection synthesis (Donna Bergmark) - 5SL: a language for declarative specification and generation of digital libraries (Marcos André, Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox) SESSION: Novel user interfaces A digital library of conversational expressions: helping profoundly disabled users communicate (Hayley Dunlop, Sally Jo Cunningham, Matt Jones) - Enhancing the ENVISION interface for digital libraries (Jun Wang, Abhishek Agrawal, Anil Bazaza, Supriya Angle, Edward A. Fox, Chris North) - A wearable digital library of personal conversations (Wei-hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann) - Collaborative visual interfaces to digital libraries (Katy Börner, Ying Feng, Tamara McMahon) - Binding browsing and reading activities in a 3D digital library (Pierre Cubaud, Pascal Stokowski, Alexandre Topol)
SESSION: Federating and harvesting metadata DP9: an OAI gateway service for web crawlers (Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Michael L. Nelson) - The Greenstone plugin architecture (Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, Gordon Paynter, Stefan Boddie) - Building FLOW: federating libraries on the web (Anna Keller Gold, Karen S. Baker, Jean-Yves LeMeur, Kim Baldridge) - JAFER ToolKit project: interfacing Z39.50 and XML (Antony Corfield, Matthew Dovey, Richard Mawby, Colin Tatham) - Schema extraction from XML collections (Boris Chidlovskii) - Mirroring an OAI archive on the I2-DSI channel (Ashwini Pande, Malini Kothapalli, Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox) SESSION: Music digital libraries HMM-based musical query retrieval (Jonah Shifrin, Bryan Pardo, Colin Meek, William Birmingham) - A comparison of melodic database retrieval techniques using sung queries (Ning Hu, Roger B. Dannenberg) - Enhancing access to the levy sheet music collection: reconstructing full-text lyrics from syllables (Brian Wingenroth, Mark Patton, Tim DiLauro) - Evaluating automatic melody segmentation aimed at music information retrieval (Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio) SESSION: Preserving, securing, and assessing digital libraries A methodology and system for preserving digital data (Raymond A. Lorie) - Modeling web data (James C. French) - An evaluation model for a digital library services tool (Jim Dorward, Derek Reinke, Mimi Recker) - Why watermark?: the copyright need for an engineering solution (Michael Seadle, J. R. Deller, Jr., Aparna Gurijala) SESSION: Image and cultural digital libraries Time as essence for photo browsing through personal digital libraries (Adrian Graham, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd) - Toward a distributed terabyte text retrieval system in China-US million book digital library (Bin Liu, Wen Gao, Ling Zhang, Tie-jun Huang, Xiao-ming Zhang, Jun Cheng) - Enhanced perspectives for historical and cultural documentaries using informedia technologies (Howard D. Wactlar, Ching-chih Chen) - Interfaces for palmtop image search (Mark Derthick)

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Information Retrieval (BVB)

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AN 97000 [Allgemeines # Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft # Informationswissenschaft # Fachliche Information und Dokumentation # Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Hochschulwesen]

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Weitere Rez: Information - Wissenschaft und Praxis 58(2007) H.5, S.317-318 (M. Katzmayr): "Fazit: Mit diesem Band ist eine interessante und relevante Zusammenstellung wichtiger Ausgangspunkte für thematische Webrecherchen geglückt, aufgrund seiner praktischen Relevanz ist ihm eine weite Verbreitung zu wünschen. Insbesondere Bibliothekare im fachlichen Auskunftsdienst in wissenschaftlichen oder größeren öffentlichen Bibliotheken können aus dieser gut sortierten Fundgrube hochwertiger Internetquellen einen großen Nutzen ziehen."

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AN 97000 [Allgemeines # Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft # Informationswissenschaft # Fachliche Information und Dokumentation # Allgemeines, Wissenschaft, Hochschulwesen]

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Abstract

In this collection of nearly 50 articles written by librarians, computer specialists, and other information professionals, the reader finds 10 chapters, each devoted to a problem or a side effect that has emerged since the introduction of the Internet: control over selection, survival of the book, training users, adapting to users' expectations, access issues, cost of technology, continuous retraining, legal issues, disappearing data, and how to avoid becoming blind sided. After stating a problem, each chapter offers solutions that are subsequently supported by articles. The editor's comments, which appear throughout the text, are an added bonus, as are the sections concluding the book, among them a listing of useful URLs, a works-cited section, and a comprehensive index. This book has much to recommend it, especially the articles, which are not only informative, thought-provoking, and interesting but highly readable and accessible as well. An indispensable tool for all librarians.

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Rez. in: JASIST 55(2004) no.11, S.1025-1026 (D.E. Agosto): ""Did you ever feel as though the Internet has caused you to lose control of your library?" So begins the introduction to this volume of over 50 articles, essays, library policies, and other documents from a variety of sources, most of which are library journals aimed at practitioners. Volume editor Block has a long history of library service as well as an active career as an online journalist. From 1977 to 1999 she was the Associate Director of Public Services at the St. Ambrose University library in Davenport, Iowa. She was also a Fox News Online weekly columnist from 1998 to 2000. She currently writes for and publishes the weekly ezine Exlibris, which focuses an the use of computers, the Internet, and digital databases to improve library services. Despite the promising premise of this book, the final product is largely a disappointment because of the superficial coverage of its issues. A listing of the most frequently represented sources serves to express the general level and style of the entries: nine articles are reprinted from Computers in Libraries, five from Library Journal, four from Library Journal NetConnect, four from ExLibris, four from American Libraries, three from College & Research Libraries News, two from Online, and two from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Most of the authors included contributed only one item, although Roy Tennant (manager of the California Digital Library) authored three of the pieces, and Janet L. Balas (library information systems specialist at the Monroeville Public Library in Pennsylvania) and Karen G. Schneider (coordinator of lii.org, the Librarians' Index to the Internet) each wrote two. Volume editor Block herself wrote six of the entries, most of which have been reprinted from ExLibris. Reading the volume is muck like reading an issue of one of these journals-a pleasant experience that discusses issues in the field without presenting much research. Net Effects doesn't offer much in the way of theory or research, but then again it doesn't claim to. Instead, it claims to be an "idea book" (p. 5) with practical solutions to Internet-generated library problems. While the idea is a good one, little of the material is revolutionary or surprising (or even very creative), and most of the solutions offered will already be familiar to most of the book's intended audience.
Unlike muck of the professional library literature, Net Effects is not an open-aimed embrace of technology. Block even suggests that it is helpful to have a Luddite or two an each library staff to identify the setbacks associated with technological advances in the library. Each of the book's 10 chapters deals with one Internet-related problem, such as "Chapter 4-The Shifted Librarian: Adapting to the Changing Expectations of Our Wired (and Wireless) Users," or "Chapter 8-Up to Our Ears in Lawyers: Legal Issues Posed by the Net." For each of these 10 problems, multiple solutions are offered. For example, for "Chapter 9-Disappearing Data," four solutions are offered. These include "Link-checking," "Have a technological disaster plan," "Advise legislators an the impact proposed laws will have," and "Standards for preservation of digital information." One article is given to explicate each of these four solutions. A short bibliography of recommended further reading is also included for each chapter. Block provides a short introduction to each chapter, and she comments an many of the entries. Some of these comments seem to be intended to provide a research basis for the proposed solutions, but they tend to be vague generalizations without citations, such as, "We know from research that students would rather ask each other for help than go to adults. We can use that (p. 91 )." The original publication dates of the entries range from 1997 to 2002, with the bulk falling into the 2000-2002 range. At up to 6 years old, some of the articles seem outdated, such as a 2000 news brief announcing the creation of the first "customizable" public library Web site (www.brarydog.net). These critiques are not intended to dismiss the volume entirely. Some of the entries are likely to find receptive audiences, such as a nuts-and-bolts instructive article for making Web sites accessible to people with disabilities. "Providing Equitable Access," by Cheryl H. Kirkpatrick and Catherine Buck Morgan, offers very specific instructions, such as how to renovate OPAL workstations to suit users with "a wide range of functional impairments." It also includes a useful list of 15 things to do to make a Web site readable to most people with disabilities, such as, "You can use empty (alt) tags (alt="') for images that serve a purely decorative function. Screen readers will skip empty (alt) tags" (p. 157). Information at this level of specificity can be helpful to those who are faced with creating a technological solution for which they lack sufficient technical knowledge or training.
Some of the pieces are more captivating than others and less "how-to" in nature, providing contextual discussions as well as pragmatic advice. For example, Darlene Fichter's "Blogging Your Life Away" is an interesting discussion about creating and maintaining blogs. (For those unfamiliar with the term, blogs are frequently updated Web pages that ]ist thematically tied annotated links or lists, such as a blog of "Great Websites of the Week" or of "Fun Things to Do This Month in Patterson, New Jersey.") Fichter's article includes descriptions of sample blogs and a comparison of commercially available blog creation software. Another article of note is Kelly Broughton's detailed account of her library's experiences in initiating Web-based reference in an academic library. "Our Experiment in Online Real-Time Reference" details the decisions and issues that the Jerome Library staff at Bowling Green State University faced in setting up a chat reference service. It might be useful to those finding themselves in the same situation. This volume is at its best when it eschews pragmatic information and delves into the deeper, less ephemeral libraryrelated issues created by the rise of the Internet and of the Web. One of the most thought-provoking topics covered is the issue of "the serials pricing crisis," or the increase in subscription prices to journals that publish scholarly work. The pros and cons of moving toward a more free-access Web-based system for the dissemination of peer-reviewed material and of using university Web sites to house scholars' other works are discussed. However, deeper discussions such as these are few, leaving the volume subject to rapid aging, and leaving it with an audience limited to librarians looking for fast technological fixes."

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AN 76400 Allgemeines / Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft / Bibliothekswesen / Bibliotheksbenutzung / Auskunft, Information

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AN 76400 Allgemeines / Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaft / Bibliothekswesen / Bibliotheksbenutzung / Auskunft, Information

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Information Gateway

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Footnote

Rez. in: FR Nr.165 vom 18.7.2003, S.14 (T.P. Gangloff) "Suchmaschinen sind unverzichtbare Helferinnen für die Internet-Recherche Doch wenn die Trefferliste zu viele Links anbietet, wird die Suche schon mal zur schlafraubenden Odyssee. Wer angesichts umfangreicher Trefferlisten verzweifelt, für den ist die Broschüre Finden, was man sucht! von Michael Klems das Richtige. Klems klärt zunächst über Grundsätzliches auf, weist darauf hin, dass die Recherchehilfen bloß Maschinen seien, man ihre oft an Interessen gekoppelten Informationen nicht ungeprüft verwenden solle und ohnehin das Internet nie die einzige Quelle sein dürfe. Interessant sind die konkreten Tipps - etwa zur effizienten Browsernutzung (ein Suchergebnis mit der rechten Maustaste in einem neuen Fenster öffnen; so behält man die Fundliste) oder zu Aufbau und Organisation eines Adressenverzeichnisses. Richtig spannend wird die Broschüre, wenn Klems endlich ins Internet geht. Er erklärt, wie die richtigen Suchbegriffe die Trefferquote erhöhen: Da sich nicht alle Maschinen am Wortstamm orientierten, empfehle es sich, Begriffe sowohl im Singular als auch im Plural einzugeben; außerdem plädiert Klems grundsätzlich für Kleinschreibung. Auch wie Begriffe verknüpft werden, lernt man. Viele Nutzer verlassen sich beim Recherchieren auf Google - und übersehen, dass Webkataloge oder spezielle Suchdienste nützlicher sein können. Klems beschreibt, wann welche Dienste sinnvoll sind: Mit einer Suchmaschine ist man immer auf dem neuesten Stand, während ein Katalog wie Web.de bei der Suche nach bewerteter Information hilft. Mets-Suchmaschinen wie Metager.de sind der Joker - und nur sinnvoll bei Begriffen mit potenziell niedriger Trefferquote. Ebenfalls viel versprechende Anlaufpunkte können die Diskussionsforen des Usenet sein, erreichbar über die Groups-Abfrage bei Google. Wertvoll sind die Tipps für die Literaturrecherche. Eine mehrseitige Linksammlung rundet die Broschüre ab"

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Abstract

Das 1. "Benutzungs"-Handbuch zur freien Internet-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia gibt dem Neuling eine Einführung in das Arbeiten in und mit dem Online-Lexikon. Sowohl der passive Nutzer als auch der aktive Mitarbeiter erhält "Hilfen, Ratschläge, Anweisungen und Tipps". Das Buch richtet sich aber auch an versierte Wikipedia-Mitarbeiter, die einfach einmal schnell eine Information nachschlagen wollen. Außerdem gibt es einen Überblick über die Entstehungsgeschichte des Internetprojekts. Und das Besondere: Alle Kapitel des Buches sind aus der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia zusammengestellt und dort nachschlagbar. Dazu gibt es die DVD-ROM mit der über 300.000 Artikel umfassenden Offline-Version des Lexikons. Redaktionsstand: Oktober 2005.

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Kritisiert wird, dass viele der Einträge der Wikipedia einfach ein Sammelsurium aus bereits vorhandenen Lexikatexten darstellen oder dass komplette Beiträge aus DDR-Lexika eingestellt werden, ohne dass auf diese Tatsache hingewiesen wird. Rassistische Diskurse aus dem 19. und 20. Jahrhundert werden vielfach fortgeschrieben und nur moderat modernisiert. So werden in den Meinungsforen unter anderem Begriffe wie »Indianer« für die amerikanischen Ureinwohner benutzt mit der Begründung, der Begriff sei dank Karl May gar nicht negativ besetzt. Ebenso wie ein stark christliches Bias vielfach kritisiert wird, das von der Tatsache ablenkt, dass der überwiegende Teil der Menschheit anderen Religionen oder gar keiner anhängen. Diese christliche Orientierung scheint für die deutsche Version der Wikipedia typisch zu sein, andere Versionen des Netzwerkes kommen ohne christliche Symbolik aus, darunter sogar die italienische oder die spanische. Die zahlreichen Vorwürfe sorgten für eine Änderung des Publikationsverfahrens innerhalb der Wikipedia: jeder Autor eines neuen Artikels muss sich registrieren lassen, bevor der Artikel frei geschaltet wird. Allerdings findet keine echte Authentifizierung statt. Mittlerweile erstreckt sich die Kontrolle auch auf Änderungen an vorhandenen Artikeln -das Publikationsverhalten bei den verschiedenen Versionen ist durchaus unterschiedlich: während in der englischen Version die Tendenz besteht neue Artikel zu schreiben, werden in der deutschen Version gerne vorhandene Artikel modifiziert. Obwohl die Wikipedia Anlass zu Kritik bietet, so sollte sie - neben hierarchisch, in geschlossenen Systemen erstellten Nachschlagewerken -durchaus konsultiert werden. Es gibt viele Themen, zu denen in Allgemeinenzyklopädien wenig Information steht, so dass eine Fachenzyklopädie sicherlich in vielen Fällen vorzuziehen ist. Sie zu ermitteln dürfte keine Mühe bereiten. Es ist allerdings nicht tragbar, die Wikipedia als einzige Quelle zu akzeptieren. Immerhin dürfte sie das einzige lexikalische Projekt sein, an dem Menschen in mehr als 10o Sprachen mitarbeiten. Und wie gut die Selbstregulierungsmechanis men funktionieren, zeigt beispielhaft die Tatsache, dass die illegal aus DDR-Lexika eingestellten Texte von anderen Mitarbeitern entdeckt worden waren, obwohl sie ausschließlich gedruckt vorlagen und nicht durch Suchmaschinen gefunden werden konnten. Dies ändert nichts daran, dass manche Texte von miserabler Qualität einfach für lange Zeit unbearbeitet bleiben.
Die Vermarktungsmaschinerie der Wikipedia arbeitet bewusst mit der Förderung eines Gemeinschaftsgefühls der Mitarbeiter. So sind die Wachstumsraten der regionalen Versionen der Wikipedia ein Indiz für ein solches Gemeinschaftsgefühl, welches allein aus dem Reiz großer Zahlen genügend Stoff für eine stetige Selbstrekrutierung neuer Anhänger gewinnt - wir leben in einem Zeitalter geschickten Marketings entbehrlicher Inhalte. An der Tatsache, dass die Artikel nur Momentaufnahmen darstellen, die praktisch nie zitierfähig sind, ändert dies nichts. Das, was bei Britannica und Co. ein Nachteil ist, wird bei der Wikipedia ins gegenteilige Extrem verkehrt. So ergibt sich der praktische Wert der Wikipedia daraus, dass man sich grob über ein vollkommen unbekanntes Thema informieren und dann eruieren kann, welches Fachlexikon eventuell für eine genaue Information geeignet wäre. Für zuverlässige Fakten ist sie vielfach unbrauchbar. Letztlich muss man ein Lexikon an seinen schlechten Einträgen messen. Ein ernstes Problem ist bei der Wikipedia das Phänomen der »edit wars« - im Schnitt wird jeder Artikel zehnmal geändert, bisweilen in sich gegenseitig ausschließenden Richtungen, und es ist nicht selten, dass ein neuer Forschungsstand mit einem 30 Jahre alten überschrieben wird. Allerdings führt dies mitunter zu fruchtbaren Diskussionen und einer Gegenüberstellung von neuem und altem Forschungsstand, was mehr ist als eine klassische Enzyklopädie bietet. Bisweilen werden umkämpfte Artikel gesperrt. So steht das Projekt vor dem Problem, einen gesicherten Forschungsstand kenntlich zu machen, der zitierfähig wäre. Auffallend ist die Bildung von regelrechten Bearbeiterkartellen, die als Wiki-Darwinismus bezeichnet werden können.