Wikis – in theory the wiki is a useful tool for cataloguing a collection of information. However according to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki -
Anyone who wants to add to or edit topics on the wiki can do it. You don't need to ask before making a change -- wiki’s belong to the community of librarians who use it. . This I find quite worrying, surely consistency is not maintained if ANYONE can add or edit a topic. In my experience allowing anyone to dabble in cataloguing can only be inviting trouble, I spent many hours tidying up such a catalogue after years of inexperienced employees had used key words they thought were appropriate.
Then we have the Welcome to the Blogging Libraries Wiki – what is this all about.
We have Blogs that in practice are used like personal journals or taken further can be used as an information site a sort of Intranet available on the web – but then we have a blogging library wiki – a wiki to organise all the different types of library blogs available.
This new technology seems to be using technology for the sake of it.
Chainki on the whole I found quite interesting – until I tried to follow 1 particular link that I was interested in –Aart History. First I searched the ARTs section which I thought was the obvious one and yes I found some interesting stuff. Doing a general search for Art History also led me to this category, however I also found a very useful link under Kids and teens. Arts, Painting and history – this I found rather a long winded way of getting to a site about ART HISTORY. You could also follow a different path under recreation to reach it too. What is wrong with agreeing on one category if it is an agreed and tested term. I just feel that this freedom to call a spade by any kind of digging implement you can think of is just too extreme and I reserve judgement on this particular part of new technology.
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