Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wikipedia en wetenschap

In Elsevier's Research Trends maakt Sarah Huggett in "The influence of free encyclopedias on science", melding van het toenemend gebruik van Wikipedia in het wetenschappelijk bedrijf.

"What is perhaps surprising is that Wikipedia appears to be increasingly used by scholars for their research. Research published in 2011 looked at the visibility of Wikipedia in scholarly content, and found a steady increase of the amount of work about Wikipedia from 2002 to 2010"

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Thinglink:Creating interactive images

ThingLink is a nice piece of software that creates interactive images. It provides links and tags in the interiors of an image. It can be used to enrich the story behind anything from a photograph or a flowchart to an infographic or a cartoon.

Take a look at this how-to vid:

Here is an example of an infographic of the history of Apple and the famous "I have a dream" picture with Martin Luther King.