From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy / quote 7 of 30
Encyclopedias need better ways to navigate them
In short, scholars and students don’t just need the reference works—they also need the means to search and navigate them effectively. To preserve the utility of encyclopedias as they grow, we must also improve our ability to represent their contents in meaningful ways accessible to novice and expert alike. The dynamic nature and increased scale of digital reference works, however, render traditional editorial methods of gathering and organizing metacontent (indices, cross-references, tables of contents) so resource-intensive and inefficient as to be practically inapplicable.