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The Digital Commons and the Republic of
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J o r i s P e k e l T h e O p e n K n o w l e d g e F o u n d a t i o n
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Moo Cows by user LookingGlass CC-BY
The Commons
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The Republic of Letters
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“To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” - Google
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge” - Wikipedia
“Universal Access to All Knowledge” - Internet Archive
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"Enable access to everyone who wants to do research"
- British Library, Our Mission and 2020 Vision
"Our core values are: accessibility, sustainability, innovation and cooperation."
-National Library of the Netherlands, Our Mission and Vision
"To provide diverse audiences with the best quality experience and optimum access to our collections, physically and digitally."
- the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mission and Objectives
"The Federal Archives have the legal responsibility of permanently preserving the federal archival documents and making them available for use."
- German Federal Archives - Responsibilities
The National Gallery of Denmark is Denmark’s premier museum of art. Through Accessibility, education, and exhibition
- Danish National Gallery - Mission
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Oxford University by user dgj103. CC-BY
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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Timeliner Recline
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Crowdcrafting
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Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana
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Division of Labour
1. Provide data and digital content to Europeana with a focus on digitised manuscripts
2. Build tools for the aggregation of this data and content so that it can be re-used and connected
3. Develop tools for the re-use of Europeana Linked Data in humanities research contexts
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Linked Open Data
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Linked Open Data
Allow teachers, students and researchers to explore the connections others make between works, authors and collections
Lower the barrier to entry for others to build the tools that will define 21st century scholarship
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Wittgenstein Incubator
10#scholars#from#the#University#of#Bergen#using#DM2E#tools#to#annotate#and#curate#Wi=genstein’s#Brown#Book#
Feedback#in#to#further#development#of#the#plaDorm#
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Open Humanities Awards
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conclusion
• The stuff (the ‘Digital Commons’): open access to research outputs, open digital copies of public domain works, open data about works, open source code, etc.
• The people (‘the Republic’): this enables the growth of the commons, as well as value from it. Reaching more people. Collaboration and engagement. Policy and best practises. Excitement and vision. You!
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Join us!
http://dm2e.eu
http://openglam.org
Mailing lists: Open-humanitiesHumanities-devOpen-GLAM
Twitter: @okfn & @openGLAM
http://github.com/okfn
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