For the past twenty-five years the Venice Project Center has been collecting data pertaining to Venetian culture. In 2007, students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute created a wiki-style website called Venipedia, which attempted to produce a comprehensive database on every object and artifact in Venice. As of 2011, Venipedia reached over 4,500 pages. Unfortunately, the free editing capability installed to encourage contribution caused spam and inconsistencies. This project created an entirely new Venipedia by moving the old website to a different domain, transferring only exemplary pages back to the reinstalled Venipedia.org, while coordinating the addition of new data from projects this year and developing a sustainable management plan for the future growth of the site.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Poganski, David Michael
• Tsiros, Alyssa B.
• McCarthy, Lauren Barbara
• Bobell, Patrick Anthoney

Subject

• Culture
• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121412-163337

Keyword

• Historic preservation
• Web sites--Design and construction

Advisor

• Zeugner, John F.
• Carrera, Fabio

Year

• 2012

Center

• Venice, Italy Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Date created

• 2012-12-14

Location

• Venice

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright