BUILDING NETWORKED LOCAL

KNOWLEDGE

LOCALWIKI &

LIBRARY ENGAGEMENT

PRESENTATION FLOW

1. LocalWiki overview2. LocalWiki use cases3. Networked local knowledge

A GRASSROOTS EFFORTTO COLLECT, SHARE

AND OPEN THEWORLD’S LOCAL

KNOWLEDGE

localwiki.orgfree/open-source softwareDjango-basedvps or dedicated server

wysiwyg markup editor

OpenStreetMap

versioning

analytics dashboard

DavisWiki --> WikiSpot --> Knight Foundation --> LocalWiki

71 independent projects10 countries7 languages380K+ unique page views per month29M page views per year

LOCALWIKI EXAMPLES

ARBORWIKI.ORG/BIRTHDAY_DEALS

CUWIKI.NET/CURTIS_ORCHARD

CUWIKI.NET/SEARCH/?Q=LIBRARIES

Ann Arbor District Library --> ArborWiki.org

Arlington Heights (IL) Library --> AHwiki.org

Founded Pages Users Files Maps

Ann Arbor 2005 11745 1758 1266 701

Arlington Hts 2013 693 8 10 2

Champaign-

Urbana2012 1488 202 1232 351

Toledo 2012 764 143 489 293

People want to share and learn about their local community.

THE NEXT STAGEdevelop LocalWiki as a platform to build

networked local knowledge

The idea is to add a layer of local knowledge to theecosystem of open structured data so that anyone can

build ontop of it without any restrictions.

THE NEW LOCALWIKI HUB WILL:

make it easy to start with minimal technical or logisticalchallengesprovide a repository for structured and unstructured localinformationcreate a global and universal platform for developers tobuild upon

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