"Blogs" and "Wikis"
04 January 2005 - 19:46 Filed in:
Publications"Blogs" and "Wikis" Are Valuable Software Tools for Communication Within Research Groups (Igor M. Sauer, Dominik Bialek, Ekaterina Efimova, Ruth Schwartlander, Gesine Pless, Peter Neuhaus) was published in the Januar 2005 issue of Artificial Organs, Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 82-83 - January 2005.
Appropriate software tools may improve communication and ease access to knowledge for research groups. A weblog is a website which contains periodic, chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage, whereas a wiki is hypertext-based collaborative software that enables documents to be authored collectively using a web browser. Although not primarily intended for use as an intranet-based collaborative knowledge warehouse, both blogs and wikis have the potential to offer all the features of complex and expensive IT solutions. These tools enable the team members to share knowledge simply and quicklythe collective knowledge base of the group can be efficiently managed and navigated.
Kichchadi sums up some further ideas on using RSS, blogs and wikis in research and education: here and here.
At CiteULike and "Weblogs in Higher Education" further information is available.
