Monday, June 4, 2007

The wiki spirit lives on

The "wiki" spirit applied to the world of science

The number of initiatives to exploit the potential of web to gather and share knowledge on different fields of science is growing. These websites inspired to the funding principle of Wikipedia (open access knowledge collection made by and for users) are destined to revolutionize not only the way of diffuse science but also to make the most of science: in fact the huge and ever growing amount of information can be rationally organized and maximally exploited only by putting together the pieces of the puzzle currently scattered in thousands of scientific publications accessible to a greatly limited number of subjects.

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