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Chapter 7b. Case Study: Peter Higgs: Using a Wiki in Research
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Creative Digital Industries National Mapping Project
http://wiki.cci.edu.au/display/NMP
By Peter Higgs
Senior Research Fellow, Creative Digital Industries
National Mapping Project
Queensland University of Technology
I started managing a three-year research project for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation, a research institute within Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in mid-2004. Even though I have been involved in establishing and running with multimedia CD-ROM content production since 1992 and the internet development since 1995, I never established a website for the creative industries national mapping project: There was no point! Establishing the traditional university passive "marketing" website for the project would have required the development of an extensive brief to the "publishing" division where everything we wanted to say would have to be thought through; then there would be a series of extensive meetings, which would generate concepts and revisions. All of this would have finally lead to a static website that no one would want to visit, least of all me. Updating it would have been a similar nightmare. And none of this is a criticism of the publishing department. The procedure is perfectly appropriate for any large organization needing to communicate with 30,000 to 40,000 students and 10,000 staff.
However, the project I headed was one of about half a dozen around the world ...
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