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Distributed authority control in the age of web 2.0:
The case of LibraryThing
Amanda WatsonQuestioning Authority conference
March 29, 2008
Detail: author page for Mark Twain, showing combined name variants
Expert vs. crowd
Images:
“Authority of Law” sculpture by James Earle Fraser, U.S. Supreme Court (photo credit: D. B. King)
Rally in Union Square, early 1910s (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection)