Recently, The New York Times, once a bastion of paper publishing, joined the paper vs. online encyclopedia smackdown. Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias, wrote reporter Noam Cohen.
The print encyclopedia - like that set of The Encyclopedia Brittanica taking up space on your bookshelves - is on its way out. [...]
The Encyclopedia of Life is up and running. And the Sixth Square strongly encourages you to check it out.
There are more than 300,000 pages to choose from, with information on what seems like millions of species. But the EOL isn’t close to done - it’ll take up to ten years to catalogue the [...]
The Encyclopedia of Life went live on February 26, which was a good thing - until it crashed under the weight of its own success. More than 11 million hits in the first six hours, and they kept on coming.
What’s all the fuss? This ambitious project is the brainchild of scientist E. O. Wilson. He presented [...]
In our exploration of Philadelphia encyclopediana (or is it the other way around?) we make the case for our own when, in fact, we already have one. Or some of one.
Joseph Jackson (no, not the shoeless one) compiled an Encyclopedia Of Philadelphia just as the Great Depression began to draw its blinds on [...]
Here, on the Sixth Square, we’ve been discussing the need for a Philadelphia encyclopedia before New York City has two.
There’s an even deeper point of pride here. America’s first encyclopedia was issued in Philadelphia, back in 1790. Who was responsible for this? That would be Thomas Dobson, a wily, transplanted Scot.
The cards [...]
Gary Nash gave us six reasons why to produce an encyclopedia for Philadelphia. Reason number three: several models of urban encyclopedias lay before us in Chicago, Cleveland and New York.
As Nash pointed out in his talk at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania last month, the 1,104-page Encyclopedia of Chicago is a marvel to behold. It has no [...]
As mentioned previously, when Gary Nash spoke about the state of history writing at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on October 23rd, he urged the gathered room full of historians, curators, editors, publishers, and cultural leaders to consider a new project - an encyclopedia for Philadelphia. Here are his six reasons why:
Why should Philadelphia, a city of so [...]
For nearly forty years, Gary Nash has been writing books about Philadelphia with powerful narratives. His specialty has been balancing the books of history with stories long forgotten and purposefully ignored. So why, now, is Nash saying the city needs an encyclopedia?
At a recent 25th-anniversary celebration of the last general history of the [...]
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