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The Open Encyclopedia Project is a visionary example of what is potentially possible when a group of men and women with disparate interests merge to create a knowledge warehouse. It is an exciting, dynamic environment where classification, ontologies, knowledge concepts and expert understandings dive and soar across the whole gamut of human knowledge. Young and old, visionary and conservative, do battle for how they want this resource to develop. Many keen and eager enthusiasts drop by the wayside at the shear enormity of what this dedicated, band of pioneers is attempting to create.
The opportunities offered by the OEP for knowledge sharing to our descendents is limited only by the imagination of the editors and the technical capacity of the evolving web - both are in fact limitless.
There are often harmonious and occasionally assertive clashes of international views on how areas should develop often shaded with a fear of how 'out of control' this animal of an encyclopaedia could become. Out of nowhere will come concepts like 'let's do a kid's version' or 'how about a public forum' and in days or weeks these new tentative shoots of life emerge to take the OEP along new and different paths.
The OEP will, at some time in the next few years, grow to a point where it will attract experts from every way of life. Small groups of local enthusiasts will take a specialised topic and develop it into 'THE' source for knowledge on that topic that will be freely available to all comers. The world will then beat a pathway to that site.
From these gems of patiently stiched expertise in combination with others countless times over will emerge a tapestry of knowledge with links from one end of the human experience to the other. A truely beautiful and awe inspiring vision.
It is a powerful thing that has been unleashed, powered by the human spirit to preserve our greatest legacy - human knowledge. Why not join us?
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