he OCA collections of the Internet
Archive.

December 2006 > Quote from Marc Autret

Marc Autret, a journalist and graphic designer, wrote in December 2006:
"I imagine the ebook of the future as a kind of wiki crystallized and
packaged in a format. How valuable will it be? Its value will be the
value of a book: the unity and quality of editorial work!" (NEF
Interview)

December 2006 > Quote from Pierre Schweitzer

Peter Schweitzer, inventor of the @folio project, wrote in December
2006: "The luck we all have is to live here and now this fantastic
change. When I was born in 1963, computers didn't have much memory.
Today, my music player could hold billions of pages, a true local
library. Tomorrow, by the combined effect of the Moore Law and the
ubiquity of networks, we will have instant access to works and
knowledge. We won't be much interested any more on which device to
store information. We will be interested in handy functions and
beautiful objects." (NEF Interview)

March 2007 > Citizendium, a collaborative encyclopedia

Citizendium is a pilot project to build a new encyclopedia, at the
initiative of Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia (with Jimmy Wales)
in January 2001, but resigned later on, over policy and content quality
issues. Citizendium--which stands for The Citizens' Compendium--is a
wiki project open to public collaboration, but combining "public
participation with gentle expert guidance". The project is experts-led,
not experts-only. Contributors use their own names, not anonymous
pseudonyms (like in Wikipedia), and they are guided by expert editors.
There are also constables who make sure the rules are respected.
Citizendium was launched on March 25, 2007, with 1,100 articles, 820
authors and 180 editors. There were 11,800 high-quality articles in
August 2009. Citizendium also wants to act as a prototype for upcoming
large scale knowledge-building projects that would deliver reliable
reference, scholarly and educational content.

May 2007 > The Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) was launched in May 2007 as a global
scientific effort to document all known species of animals and plants
(1.8 million), including endangered species, and expedite the millions
of species yet to be discovered and cataloged (about 8 million). The
encyclopedia's honorary chair is Edward Wilson, professor emeritus at
Harvard University, who was the first to express the wish for such an
encyclopedia,