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To first began, in his sixtieth birthday, "Shakespeare Quarterly, and now we are trying also" post-medieval, "but long ago it was commonplace in the world of mathematics where humanistic, using blogs and wikis within a single week was an article published and evaluated, deciding not to use the traditional method, which usually takes months or years to achieve the same result.

"Shakespeare Quarterly - announces Katherine Rowe, guest editor of special 61:4," Shakespeare and New Media "- has in fact conducted from March to May 2010 an experiment in partial open peer review.

It gives an account in Italy " CIBER Newsletter" (on the site shows the source), telling how humanities scholars are beginning to challenge the system of peer review traditional wondering if there is a more efficient way, using the Internet, to subject the product to a quick trial and a more collective wide, instead of depending on a few experts chosen by the editors - and higher costs. The Magazine of the above had asked to comment on four scientific articles already subject to trial by an "inside" group, just to enjoy the scientific comparison with a control group.

At the end of ' experiment, 41 people made more than 350 reviews of good quality, often urging rebours the authors' comments that, in this way, were involved to face, and suddenly, with their readers, thus triggering even a virtuous circularity of scientific debate, landing in an intelligence un'autorialità and, in fact, collective.

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Ovo Qwik

Or: Look at the information.

the invention in a \u0026lt; www.qwiki.com > (in alpha stage and still accessible by invitation only), was rewarded by CrunchBase 2010 that assesses the most innovative ideas of the Web and consists of a multimedia encyclopedia in which the consultation takes advantage of the automatic processing of textual sources and visual presentations, video, graphics and a narrator who tells the reader not the facts of a character, a historical fact, a city, a type of technology, a musical genre. The transformation process is fully automated, not requiring human intervention in the creation of movies. The idea came from a former member of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin and founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim.

different but related perspectives is the Italian initiative Ovo \u0026lt; www.ovo.com > created in two steps from Andrea Pezzi (which it shares with Vincenzo Monti birth to Alford), and that tells Out Program, Bompiani, 2008. Unlike Qwik - and apart from the different amount of funding and the amount of information available - Ovo is not built automatically comes with a rich graphical user interface clickable and is organized into categories: Ovobio (men and women who made history), Ovopedia (encyclopedic knowledge) and Ovopolis (cultural structures created man).

The real news, however, lies elsewhere, and is in denial of any contribution user generated or is a work of crowd sourcing, to the benefit of items signed, published and eventually financed by a single author, who thus becomes " owner "of an encyclopedia entry of up to cultural patronage of companies that use this form Publishing to acquire advertising space.

• How does the video encyclopedia Qwik
• Ovo is the video encyclopedia, Wikipedia defeat?

[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]

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Vook

No Video, but the Book is not sincresi of both (less than not translate the neologism in Vibro ...). He launched for over a year, the American publisher Simon & Schuster "with \u0026lt; vook.com > The releasing of a patent by Bradley Inman, the creator of a platform innovation on which all forms of media can be integrated to create new communication experiences.

The video-book + film or book can be downloaded from iTunes for a few dollars (but for Valentine's Day of 2011 were enough 99 cents) on your iPhone or iPod, iBook, iPad, Kindle, or online directly and, if all 'start teaching manuals and a few contained mainly the first work of fiction (like a short story by Anne Rice vampire also accompanied by a book trailer shot by his son), the catalog is now richer and more complete.

Reading the book (or, to a lesser extent, listening to the radio), because no figures (just what Alice would have wished to meet in the reading), allows the imagination to build the scenery and the faces independently, so that two readings of the same book, even by the same reader, not the intellect they give the same result. A movie or a play or a comic, conversely, enable albeit in different sizes, an interpretation less or not at all personalized because castrating imaginifica structure of each tax and visual solutions chosen by others, even if it is true that the identification emotional "player" with the hero of the story takes place more quickly and deeply. However, the integration of two such different ways to cover a story will, probably, a new type of experiential reading: immersive, mining, education, or all three together, a fourth hybrid form of interactivity that still do not know?

In any case: "We believe it is possible" vookkare "any book," says Bradley Inman, a proponent of triumph with every comfort: to look more and read less.

[pre-print for "The Librarian", III series, ISSN 11250992, 1-2/2011]