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San Francisco State University

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LibraryThing and the library catalog: adding collective intelligence to the OPAC


Web 2.0 theorists argue that Internet technologies now allow us to harness the 'Wisdom of the Crowd' in unprecedented ways. Successful online experiments such as Wikipedia demonstrate that the collective knowledge of millions of users can produce reference works that are more comprehensive than traditional reference sources produced by a small group of experts. Similarly...

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