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Dear Rick,<br>
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So far, I know of three websites that seem to touch the general kind
of thing you're talking about, though not (presently) for IS
research in general:<br>
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* AcaWiki (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acawiki.org">http://acawiki.org</a>): Tries to compile summaries of all
kinds of academic papers; IS research papers would fit nicely in
here. <br>
* WikiPapers (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikipapers.referata.com">http://wikipapers.referata.com</a>): Collects data about
papers specifically focused on research concerning wikis.<br>
* WikiLit (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikilit.referata.com">http://wikilit.referata.com</a>): My research team's website
to support our literature review of academic research on Wikipedia.
(With over 900 researchers of Wikipedia listed, you can see that not
all academics snub Wikipedia!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Researchers">http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Category:Researchers</a>)<br>
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Here are two papers that could serve as helpful reading:<br>
<br>
* A workshop description at WikiSym 2011 that discussed the very
challenges you seem to be raising, though only about wiki research:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038612">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038612</a><br>
* A working paper that my research team posted just yesterday:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2021326">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2021326</a>. You would probably be most
interested in the section titled "WikiLit: A Semantic MediaWiki of
Wikipedia Research"; this describes in detail my team's current
efforts in this general direction--though focusing only on Wikipedia
research.<br>
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In addition to the AISWorld list (and I hope others might also
contribute to this discussion), there are two other researcher lists
that I think would be very interested in discussing these ideas
you've raised:<br>
<br>
* This kind of request has been discussed on the wiki-research-l, a
research list for wiki and Wikipedia researchers. The lively group
of 400+ subscribers would gladly discuss this topic. You can
subscribe and search archives at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l</a>.<br>
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* I think perhaps a good possibility for setting up an IS research
wiki would be as a subarea of the AcaWiki site. At present, it's not
so active, but from my past interactions with that community, they
would be quite supportive of a large research community such as IS
researchers using their platform to build a collection of
disciplinary paper reviews. You can subscribe and search archives at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acawiki-general">http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/acawiki-general</a>.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Chitu Okoli<br>
Associate Professor in Information Systems<br>
John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montréal<br>
<br>
Professeur invité dans technologies d'information<br>
HEC Montréal, 2012 à 2013<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chitu.okoli.org/pro">http://chitu.okoli.org/pro</a><br>
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As research and information is exploding, a.k.a. "big data"
conducting a thorough literature review is becoming a daunting,
time-consuming task. While many in academia have snubbed open
sourced information sources such as Wikipedia, I believe it would
be extremely useful for AIS, another organization or dare I
suggest even an open sourced group to develop a wiki site for
sharing literature searches.
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In conducting a literature review I feel I am often re-creating
the wheel. The authors of articles by sited in research have
conducted literature reviews, so future research is duplicating
their efforts. A site dedicated to IS research would be one way to
begin dealing with the increased burden of information overload. A
new model for research publication and sharing needs to be
created.
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Should not we in information technologies be leading the way?
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I would appreciate your thoughts!
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Dr. Rick Weible
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Professor of MIS
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Marshall University
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