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=Pathfinders= Each Collaborative Research group (see guidelines below) will be led by a pathfinder, or group coordinator. Pathfinders will open up a Userpage where group members can access the pathfinder’s Talk page; this will be used for communicating about all aspects of the group’s work, especially in getting the topic settled and the work started. This is a public space—you may have other editors commenting as well. The article you create will also have a Talk page for consultation between group members and potentially comments from others in the large Wikipedia community. Pathfinders are NOT required to do more work on the project than other members, but in the spirit of Wikipedia they are volunteers who want to help the whole process run more smoothly.

=Collaborative Research Project Guidelines=

Overview
Identity: User and Critic

Main assignment focus: Research disseminated on the Web

Points: 225

Reading Tie-in: Morville; Shirky

We have seen in Ambient Findability that the social Web needs to merge with the semantic Web in order for the digital environment, and our digital literacy, to have an increasingly productive role in our lives. The “unified Web” provides and encourages social collaboration in many functions, and links findable data at the same time. Research, a key function of academic literacy, can prosper in this environment.

Basic tools for finding information and discovering knowledge enhance older patterns of individual search and discovery (Morville); this combines with newer group-oriented building of knowledge via social processes of collaboration and “publish-then-filter” (See Shirky ch. 4) put into action in Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis.

Goals
•	Build knowledge collaboratively

•	Use networked resources for research and communication

•	Demonstrate academic literacy

•	Aid searchable presentation of human knowledge

Guidelines
Collaboratively identify a topic of your choosing for a group contribution to Wikipedia. It could be connected to our readings (for example, recent developments on the Internet, our digital culture, information retrieval and organization, social media, individuals playing major roles in any of these, etc.) or it could go further afield. But all members of the group need to agree to work on this topic. Please clear the topic with me before you start.

Your topic may already be written on, in which case you will be adding to or modifying an existing article. Specific guidelines on working with existing articles will be given at a later point.

Using Web or print resources (including databases and card cat), identify and actively use at least 2 sources contributed by each member; these should ultimately appear in the References section of the article. (Or, if the group is dividing up jobs, there should be about twice as many sources as there are people in the group.)