Main Page

From Mongol Studies Online Reference

Jump to: navigation, search
Mongol Studies Online Reference
Contributed to & edited by the academic community.
Currently 2,048 articles available.

About the Mongol Studies Online Reference
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS), in cooperation with its institutional and individual members, created this collaborative online reference guide for Inner Asian and Mongolian Studies. The guide is intended as a repository of secondary sources of information regarding books, articles, artifacts, historical events and people, culture, research projects, and other snippets of information useful for researchers to acquire an initial sense of the topography of research and information available in a particular discipline active in the region. The guide may be thought of as an online encyclopedia, almanac, and annotated bibliography merged into one centralized web-based resource.

The ACMS and its partners intend to make the development of this resource a community effort, and as such Mediawiki, which supports the well known online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is the platform for the "Mongol Studies Online Reference Guide." This technology allows decentralized and independent contributions to the reference guide through simple text based interfaces which require rudimentary training in order to utilize. This allows subject experts the ability to contribute their knowledge to the reference guide from a place and at a time that is convenient to them without the need for extensive technical training to understand arcane programming languages. This aspect of the technology is a key part of ensuring the sustained development of the reference guide because practical constraints of geography and dispersion among the academic community working on Inner Asia are reduced.

Getting Started...
In order to create new articles or edit articles you must first establish an account and verify it by e-mail. You can do this by clicking the "Log in/create account" hyperlink in the top right hand corner of you browser window. Once you have an account established you can begin modifying the Mongol Studies Online Reference.

Creating pages and editing articles in wiki's is intended to be easy for people without technical degrees in computer science. The key word there is "intended." For the most part wiki's are quite easy to use, but there are times when you have to learn some computer code to make your articles display correctly. A good place to begin is looking at Wikipedia's Help documentation.

Another option is to use the help documentation for this wiki. However, much of the information specific to this website has yet to be created! This is something you might consider helping out with.

Finally, you can read the concept paper behind this project. It provides background information about how this project will be managed and develop over time.

This resource cannot grow without your contribution, so please create an account and start writing and editing articles.

About the ACMS
ACMS Logo
ACMS Logo
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) was incorporated in April 2002 to encourage and facilitate academic research in Mongolia and Inner Asia, a broad region consisting of Mongolia and parts of China, Russia and Central Asia, including Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Buryatia, Tuva and eastern Kazakhstan. It is a US registered 501(c)3 not-for-profit, academic organization and a Mongolia registered non-governmental, non-profit organization. In the past five years the organization has initiated and been involved in numerous activities that encourage and facilitate academic research in the region.

The primary areas of focus include direct logistical support to students and faculty in the form of services, fellowships, and grant opportunities, organizing and sponsoring conferences, and disseminating and making information accessible about Inner Asia and research in the region.

For more information about the ACMS visit:
Retrieved from "http://mongoliacenter.org/monreference/index.php/Main_Page"
Personal tools