{"id":670,"date":"2004-10-26T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/26\/ebs-2-track-mind-a-blast-from-the-"},"modified":"2004-10-26T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T19:12:33","slug":"ebs-2-track-mind-a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/26\/ebs-2-track-mind-a-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"EB&#8217;s 2-Track Mind?  A Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a573'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/\">Freerepublic<\/a> posted a note about the Encyclopedia Britannica, with Dale Hoiberg speaking about its most promising content channels, and how it intends to refresh its online content quickly with <b>two-track workflow<\/b>.  I&#8217;m dying to know whether they&#8217;ve stuck with it for the past three years, and how their workflow has changed.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The material online, moreover, is constantly updated. Britannica&#8217;s editor, a Sinologist named Dale Hoiberg, says it has instituted a two-track workflow: one fast, for work that needs to be turned around quickly (for an impeachment, for instance); and another slower, for the traditional work of researching, writing and editing the encyclopedia&#8217;s entries.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Schroeder predicts that reference publishers will pursue &#8220;such a variety of different business models, it will make your head swim.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/forum\/a3aa0fb871918.htm\">March 2, 2001 edition<\/a> of freerepublic.com, a mere <b>six weeks<\/b> after Wikipedia&#8217;s founding)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Including, I suppose, the &#8220;100% volunteer&#8221; business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, Freerepublic posted a note about the Encyclopedia Britannica, with Dale Hoiberg speaking about its most promising content channels, and how it intends to refresh its online content quickly with two-track workflow. I&#8217;m dying to know whether they&#8217;ve stuck with it for the past three years, and how their workflow has changed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}