Title: Building the EnCOrE dictionary collaboratively: strategy and practice

Authors: Alain Krief, Catherine Castillo-Colaux, Julie Henry, Claudie Juilliard, Sandrine Peraldi

Addresses: Department of Chemistry, Facultes Universitaires, Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue, de Bruxelles, B5000 Namur, Belgium. ' Department of Chemistry, Facultes Universitaires, Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue, de Bruxelles, B5000 Namur, Belgium. ' Department of Chemistry, Facultes Universitaires, Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue, de Bruxelles, B5000 Namur, Belgium. ' UFR EILA, Universite Paris, 7, 2 Place Jussieu, F75251 Paris Cedex 05, France. ' UFR EILA, Universite Paris, 7, 2 Place Jussieu, F75251 Paris Cedex 05, France

Abstract: We are building an encyclopaedia of organic chemistry (EnCOrE) in English and making it freely available on the internet. We expect the tools to be used by novice as well as advanced researchers from university and industry. They will allow cross-searches based on chemical structures and equations, and on explanatory texts and an elaborated dictionary. EnCOrE will be created under a strong editorial organisation but also collaboratively between chemists. This will ensure that it is kept up to date and will favour a consensual approach. We will disclose our effort to develop, in this way, the EnCOrE dictionary and the protocols to favour collaboration.

Keywords: organic chemistry; dictionary; lexicon; glossary; web-based encyclopaedia; collaborative working; collaborative tools; internet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2008.020655

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2008 Vol.4 No.2/3, pp.203 - 216

Published online: 08 Oct 2008 *

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