stevertigo wrote: > David Goodman wrote: > >> 1. The best role of a librarian is to teach other people how to do research, >> > > Well, are they "librarians" or "teachers" in information science? > Why promote a false dichotomy? >> ''How Wikipedia Works'' (http://howwikipediaworks.com/ the free online >> version.) >> > > Ah. Apparently only chapter 12 is "free." Does someone here have a > copy they would like to share? Or maybe a torrent link? > The whole book is free under the GFDL.
The only reason for keeping this thread going would be that the Monday lull seems to have stretched to Thursday this week. To sum up a bit, I was pushing for a broader definition of the part of the Web complementary to what Google or other search engines find with ease: the Deep Web includes webpage returns from online databases where the search you run is unobvious, but is not limited to those pages. The division of labour for exploring the Deep Web has to include more than webcrawlers, by definition. It could include both "explorers" and "dredgers". Explorers would be humans who carry out particularly arduous searches, either on their own behalf or for others, either self-taught or tutored in techniques and approaches that are "librarian-approved". They are recognisable as generic "researchers" as found in other fields. The other approach, which I'm calling dredger, is something like a collector of materials for an as-yet unspecified project. Wikimedia Commons in part of its operations is an example of dredging of this nature; I was suggesting that the idea isn't limited in its scope to media. The thing to add, as is apparent from the librarians' contributions to the thread, is that the maps are not yet good enough for us to withdraw the term "explorer", and "here be dragons" still applies. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
