{"id":191,"date":"2022-02-22T01:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T01:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/academicalleyway.org\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:26:04","slug":"convergence-engine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academicalleyway.org\/?page_id=191","title":{"rendered":"Convergence Site"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is it?<\/h4>\n

A convergence site is an academic site that compiles research or data into one place. However, nothing is strictly textual anymore, so there is a need for something to house multimodal projects, data that may be represented in a variety of formats, and to make it all searchable. It is similar to an interactive portfolio, with built in search capabilities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Google search engine can be custom tailored for a website and is commonly used on most wiki sites to search terms within the site itself. This site contains a wiki that is in a subdomain, meaning it is not part of the main website structure. A Google search engine pointing to that subdomain would allow the person to search the wiki without having to follow all the links to get to what they need. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By expanding the search engine to include Google scholar searches, a student’s or researcher’s wiki can then be linked to an infinite number of scholarly searches that would springboard off of your wiki topic. With a convergence engine, your personal research can be connected to thousands of scholars’ research with a simple addition of targeted search engines.  <\/p>\n

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Unique Research<\/h4>\n

Each researcher has different needs. We may need to house podcasts, videos, interview recordings, 3-D models, lab data, etc. Your main website can serve as a repository for these things. Maybe you are tying it all together with weekly blogs or vlogs. If you are going to maintain a wiki you will likely want to use something like WikiMedia or dokuwiki, which is  a very different type of webpage than what you are reading this on. A convergence engine site can help tie these disparate things together, as well as connecting with a much larger world of academic research. <\/p>\n

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