The wacky world of Wikipedia
In December of 2008 Alex Jadad and I published had an editorial on the definition of health in the BMJ. The purpose of this article was to stimulate discussion on the definition of health, first...
View ArticleWikipedia and Flickr – a semantic marriage?
Wikipedia tends to primarily contain written content on practically every topic conceivable. Although it allows for pictures not every entry has (or needs) visual images. There are rules about what the...
View ArticleTables as a form of information visualization
Readers, you may find this blog posting of interest: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2010/08/the-interpretation-of-tables-in-texts-2000.html First, this guy (not to be rude, his name is...
View ArticleWikipedia and education: fear or foresight?
Since it was first cited by a student in an academic paper controversy over the accuracy, validity, truth or shall we say ‘correctness’ of Wikipedia has been debated. Before the widespread availability...
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