Post on 17-Jan-2017
Digital Commons: A Strategic View
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Professor, Information Systems DepartmentCollege of Business, San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USAhttp://verma.sfsu.edu/ sverma@sfsu.edu
Unless noted otherwise
Doctoral Seminar: Strategic Use of Information and Communications TechnologiesDBA Program
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
me
also me
Institutional Academic Partner
Centre of ExcellenceMona School of Business
University of the West IndiesJamaica
http://coe-msb.org/about
Teach
networks, databases, media
licensing and collaboration
strategy, compliance, governance
technology ->
enables ->
use ->
Research
diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies
how perception drives adoption
ServiceThe Commons Initiative at San Francisco
State University
http://commons.sfsu.edu
Fun
take things apart!
...and sometimes put them back together :-)
Resources
Makes sharing easy, legal and scalable
EthernetEthernet Computers
TCP/IPTCP/IP The Network
HTTP/The WebHTTP/The Web Documents
Creative CommonsCreative Commons Knowledge and Culture
Getting permission
Copyright holder
Get permission from copyright holder
Can we preempt the asking of
permission for the most common
requests?
A simple, standardizedway to grant copyright
permissions to your creative work.
Copyright is based on the law of the land.
Creative Commons is a license within the jurisdiction of the Copyright Law.
Creative Commons does not replace Copyright.
It facilitates attribution, propagation and use.
Attribution
Non-Commercial No Derivative Works
Share Alike
Step 1: Choose Conditions
Step 2: Receive a License
CC Licenses are built on top of copyright law
Human Readable
Deed
Lawyer Readable
Legal Code
Machine Readable Metadata
Education grants
Resources Curation
Augu
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own
Primary Scho
ol
http://o
lpcMAP
.net?id=813006
Providence Basic School, Liguanea http://olpcMAP.net?id=810009
Problem: Curate and organize
BooksMusicVideoAudioAnimation
Catalog
Pathagar: A Book ServerOpen Publication Distribution System
Pathagar : Path + Agar
पपाठपागपार : पपाठ + आगपार
A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/caturvedi/
OPDS: Open Publication and Distribution System
http://code.google.com/p/openpub
The Internet Archive is an incredible collection of over 3
million free books!
It has gems such as this film: Jamaica in 1933
Resources Curation Dissemination
Internet Access
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Penetration.png
How do we make books available in
the middle of nowhere?
Internet in a BoxA self-contained low-power Linux server
ACSolarBattery
Built-inWi-FiHotspot
Middle of nowhere
Resources Curation Dissemination
Most importantly, keep it open and accessible for the generations to come.