Chainki

Thanks to Phil Bradley's blog for pointing out Chainki. As Phil says, it is one of those ideas that makes you wonder why nobody thought of it before!

Chainki is a wiki collection of website links, based on the world's biggest collection of website links, the DMOZ Open Directory Project - so connected links = chain and wiki = chain-ki! Like any wiki, anyone can go in and add or edit links. Links are organised into subject areas in a hierarchical way - not always the one you'ld expect! - so that those to do with librarianship and information science are found via:
Reference/Libraries/Library and Information Science/
with related topics at:

• Archives (Reference)
• Government Documents (Reference/Libraries)
• Information Retrieval (Computers/Software)
• Knowledge Management (Reference)
• Library (Business/Construction and Maintenance/Materials and Supplies/Equipment)
• Library and Information Science (Reference/Libraries/Subject Specific/Social Sciences)

Wikipedia has come in for considerable debate with regard to factual accuracy, and, similarly, Chainki - like any social or collaborative tool - has to be used with care. But the potential for this resource is huge. Certainly worth watching!