Scaling the New School of Knowledge Infographic

Web platforms may one day catch up to traditional institutions like the Library of Congress in their ability to collect and organize millions of documents. Technology is influencing traditional libraries, too. Last year, the Library of Congress was looking for ways to make digital archives more searchable after Twitter gifted the national library with access to its own historical data. The Scaling the New School of Knowledge Infographic provides an overview of four internet companies — Quora, Wikipedia, Scribd, and Scoop.it — and the authors explain how each site’s approach to indexing knowledge corresponds to the way that libraries preserve information and how much they’ve collected so far.