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Opening Speeches Authorship & Culture Brazil, the Free Culture Nation Keynote: The Read-Write Society Netlabels: Niche, Long Tail, Blueprint? Art & Copyright Quality Management in Free Content Economy & Labour Information Freedom Rules Business and the Commons Paris Accord: Composers, Performers and the Public Open Source Biotechnology Rules & Tools of Freedom EU Copyright Directive, Review and Implementation The Future of Free Software Open APIs Freedom Expanded Open Spectrum Closing Ceremony by Frank Ronneburg © All rights reserved Quality Management in Free Content Friday, 15 September 2006, 13:00, Columbia Club The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been tackling issues of open quality assessment and improvement from its start out of the failed expert-based Nupedia. Wikipedia is currently developing a system by which a version of an article can be tested and declared ‚stable.‘ Whether this tagging will take place in an open process or by a group of editors with proven reputation is still under debate. The Digital Universe encyclopedia takes a different approach by bringing in recognized experts to certify the accuracy of user-submitted articles. In scientific publishing an alternative to the peer-review controlled by major publishing companies is crucial to achieving open access. What projects exist, what approaches do they take and what can be learned for quality filtering in other areas? Chair: Volker Grassmuck Project Lead Wizards of OS & Project Lead iRights.info & Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin Ulrich Pöschl Editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), European Geosciences Union (EGU) & Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Mainz Scientific Quality Assurance and Open Access Martin Haase Board Member Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (Wikipedia-handle maha), Professor of Linguistics, University Bamberg Larry Sanger Director of Collaborative Projects for the Digital Universe Foundation, Chief Organiser of Wikipedia in its first year, Scotts Valley, California Larry introduced for the first time his new encyclopedia project, a fork of Wikipedia, the Citizendium.

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