Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.33604/sl.14.27.6
Encyclopædia Britannica Online: an online edition of the reliable encyclopedia (2012‒2020)
Tihomir Živić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6688-6882
; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences
Abstract
With an objective to comprehend a general matter of online encyclopedias as completely as possible and derive the quoted conclusions, this paper provides, by the conduct and result of a qualitative research method exemplified by Encyclopædia Britannica, its developmental outline and a hallmark description of its select editions, in addition to their comparison with other similar enchiridia. Consequently, the introductory part epitomizes an almost‐decennial history of Britannica’s gradual transition to an online environment. Analyzing its components of Macropædia, Micropædia, and Propædia and its editorial guidelines, the central part discusses Britannica’s way from a library shelf to a computer screen in more detail while establishing its comparative correlation with other multimedia on a demanding business market, especially with Wikipedia. Hereby, the paper also conclusively indicates several possibilities to use these modern online encyclopedic contents, which also set the new systemic developmental tasks by their informational and communicational expansion of the boundaries existent heretofore.
Keywords
Encyclopædia Britannica; online edition; interactivity; accessibility; lexicography; knowledge expansion
Hrčak ID:
256047
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Publication date:
19.4.2021.
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