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Ethnoarch webmaster's current work. In other words, this is Ethnoarch's blog.
The section also details new content added to the site, technical improvements and, in general, how Ethnoarch.com is going.
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So, the database is public!
January 9, 2007
How do you browse it? Your starting point will be continents. From there, you can choose your country. In the country page, you can choose a group. In the groups page you can choose one of the group's building types, and in the types page you can choose a model (example) of that type. Then, in the models page you will choose images of that model to display in a pop-up window, plus you can see more info about each image.
For a specific example, I have begun feeding the database with information on one particular country, Ecuador (I worked on "ethno-engineering" there for five years, and this online project started partly in relation to that experience). In this case, you may start in the countries page that lists Ecuador. From this page you will get to Ecuador's info page, and from there to its groups page. You can choose one group, in this case the Secoya. From the Secoya info page you can go to their types page, and select one of their types, in this case the Tui'que Huë'e. Once in the Huë'e info page you will select one of the models or examples of this type, in this case the one that Delfín built in 2003. From that model's page you can see images of the model. You can then choose one image, and see additional info on that image.
The database contents, as you see, are structured in different levels or "layers," going from continents to countries to groups to types to models to images. I want to make this project something about knowledge as much as it can be about information. That's partly the reason behind structuring the database in such a clear-cut way. In my intention of engaging with knowledge production, I realized that properly classifying the new information that is added is perhaps as crucial as it is adding and adding more and more information (which seems to be the paradigm in Internet participative projects). I intend, consequently, to bridge the gap between information and knowledge in this project through organization. When classifying newly added information following some initial criteria (what goes as a type, what goes as a model; or even, is this new information relevant enough to go?), contributors will be using a rudimentary form of editorial criteria, and although some could say this might bias the project, it will also bring up some basic forms of authorship and also of accountability to it. This, I expect, will help making this project something dependable enough to be a citable source, and it is in any case an alternative to deal with the issues of credibility that have begun to arise in Internet participative projects (including the most iconic of them, the Wikipedia). Those issues are today highlighting unanticipated limitations in the wisdom of the crowd approach.
Enjoy browsing "the Internet first and largest," Ethnoarch's database of traditional architecture, and start contributing with your own info, or your questions on the topic. Remember that you need to register first!
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This is a hyper-linked tour of Ethnoarch's database. You are encouraged to take this tour, as it gives an idea of what this project is about, and why it's organized the way it is.
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