Wednesday, July 27, 2005

For those anxiously anticipating the SBL CARG session on biblioblogging, I've updated my paper title/abstract. Here are the details:

Biblioblog Problems and Solutions: PastoralEpistles.com as a Sandbox

Biblioblogs have come to serve a valuable role in the academic community: they disseminate information throughout the academy while serving to humanize their authors. But the information produced by bibliobloggers, while searchable via Google and able to be displayed upon request, is locked in an environment that stores content as a sort of lowest common denominator. Salient bits of information, ranging from discussions of particular Biblical passages to impromptu book reviews, are unable to be easily retrieved unless one happens to fortuitously stumble upon them. Most biblioblog content is first-rate, but the blogging software that typically generates and archives the content could be better.

This paper further defines these “lowest common denominator” problems and explores methodology used by PastoralEpistles.com to address them.

As usual, this may change somewhat but as the bulk of the paper has been written and (lightly) revised already, I don't see much change happening with the abstract.

For more information, see Jim Davila's abstract, a previous post from me and Mark Goodacre's roundup of session information.

Post Author: Rico
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:46:00 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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