Wikipedia Roll: Visualizing the data of Wikipedia January 14, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Web 2.0, Wikipedia.trackback
Wikipedia Roll is a site that tries to help us how to organize the incredible amount of information published on Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia-roll is a global and dynamic version of articles from Wikipedia.
Quickly, we access to a global vision of a subject through the definition and items of the article in Wikipedia.
Then by serendipity, from a link to an other, we discover a lot of things.
I gave it a try with genetics and it really helped me organize the numerous entries focusing on this field.
Further reading:
- VisualWikipedia and entries on drug information
- RNA Biology Journal and Wikipedia
- How to manage the content of a wiki?
- Google vs Wikipedia? No!
- Medicine in Wikipedia: Reliable Information?
- Wikipedia: Reliable Sources and Gene Wiki
- Five ways Wikipedia beats newspapers
Now THAT really does look interesting. I am going to explore this further, find out how it ticks, as I think, off the top of my head, it has a lot of potential.
This demonstration of technology ROCKS.
[...] Science Roll brings another visual search display to our attention: Wikipedia Roll, a mashup that organizes results of a Wikipedia search into clusters of related information. For example, a search for “medical library” offers the text of the Wikipedia article on the topic, a cluster of key elements, a cluster of associations, and a cluster called “see also”, with links to the National Library of Medicine, Fred Kilgour, and the Canadian Health Sciences Library Association, among others. The clusters and results box can be moved around the screen, and clicking a link from the display (such as “National Library of Medicine”) performs a Wikipedia Roll search on that topic. [...]
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