Tim,
Your projects sound interesting. I especially like the idea of OpenCritic.org, and I'll probably drop by and take a look.
- Stephen Gilbert
--- Tim McCormick tjmccormick2000@yahoo.com wrote:
Wikipedians--
I've been following Wikipedia and Nupedia for a while, so wanted to delurk, thank everyone for the most interesting work going on here, and describe two closely-related projects on which I'm working.
First, OpenCritic.org, an early-stage initiative whose goal is to build "a universal, public, open, and extensible database of critical information -- reviews, articles, lists, and bibliographic data."� I am interested in focusing on critical/bibliographic data, and creating information exchanges with other projects, such as Wikipedia or FreeDB, that are developing libre data resources. More project information is available at http://www.opencritic.org.
Secondly, I have started a site and mailing list called OpenContentList, for news, articles, announcements, and discussion of Open Content issues in general. It is an outgrowth of an extensive Open Content resources page I've been compiling and maintaining for the last two years or so (see http://www.opencontentlist.com/resources). My goal is to provide a bit of a watering-hole and announcements board for the large and growing community working on what I'd call Open Content projects -- from Wikipedia to Creative Commons to public-domain bioinformatics; and to help disseminate the news and developments to a wider community of technologists and journalists. See http://www.opencontentlist.com and http://www.opencontentlist.com/about
I invite all Wikipedia participants to take a look, and to send me any news or announcements of Open Content-style projects. I will try to keep my lists as up-to-date with these, and with Wikipedia news.
thanks, Tim
Tim McCormick http://www.tjm.org / www.opencritic.org� / www.opencontentlist.com
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