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Nasce Scholarpedia, l’enciclopedia libera e collaborativa basata su un software wiki che, grazie al controllo delle voci da parte di un comitato di esperti, promette maggiori garanzie di accuratezza e attendibilità rispetto alla sorella maggiore, Wikipedia.

Per il momento sono state inserite voci relative a tre campi disciplinari:

• Neuroscienze computazionali
• Sistemi dinamici
• Intelligenza computazionale

Riportiamo un breve commento di Bobby Pickering, a testimoniare l’accoglienza positiva che è stata riservata negli Stati Uniti a questa iniziativa:

“Could this be another milestone in the evolution of academic publishing? Scholarpedia is the first ‘free peer reviewed encyclopedia’ – a kind of morphing of open access publishing with wiki technology. [...]

The difference with Wikipedia is that each article in the encyclopedia has an expert editor attached to it as a “curator”, who approves all changes and effectively ensures the actual article is an approved version. [...]

Scholarpedia has also narrowed its initial ambitions by restricting itself to just three disciplines: Computational Neuroscience, Dynamical Systems, and Computational Intelligence. Izhikevich describes them as “seeds” that could branch out into related disciplines. Then all sorts of fields could come into play. Few people expected Wikipedia to grow into the phenomenon it has become.

Will Scholarpedia be the second generation wiki that really makes the grade?”

[fonte: http://blog.iwr.co.uk/2006/11/scholarpedia_is.html]