Wikis

I looked at the following three wikis: Wookieepedia; Mint Museums, North Carolina, and Slq library 2.0: Emerging Media and New Technology Wiki. They were all totally different and worked from totally different perspectives.

As a big fan of Star Wars Wookieepedia was a must and I was surprised at how detailed it was. It made me realise just how much information there is about Star Wars out there.

Mint Museums was interesting in the way they highlighted their exhibitions. They enabled people visiting the wiki to find out about individuals featured in exhibitions, and linked to other websites that provided more information about the individual artist or where other artworks are displayed. This could be applied to sections of the State Library's collections or to individual items of interest.

Slq library 2.0: Emerging Media and New Technology Wiki was different again.

It was interesting to see just how different Wikis can be from each other depending on what they are trying to achieve. I'm not sure how it could be applied to libraries except where I've already said.