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  Thanks for the links

  @biodiversivist: Thanks for pointing to my column at Xconomy. I wish I'd seen your posts before I wrote mine! I certainly didn't mean to steal any of your ideas.

  I got a thoughtful comment on my post from David Patterson at EOL who wrote, "Finding a balance between authority and participation in the Encyclopedia of Life is challenging. Participation (and therefore scalability) without having a sense of quality would be very risky. So, the position is to begin with authoritative contributors, and then progressively open up the Web 2.0 dimensions. More of the participatory dimensions will become visible within the next few months."

  So it sounds to me like they are at least vaguely aware of the benefits that crowdsourcing the project could bring, but are going to be super-cautious about it. Like you, I tend to think they're being too cautious and that if they opened up faster, the quality issue would sort itself out over time.On The Encyclopedia of Life keeps plugging along posted 1 year ago 5 Responses