Given at the ADEA's Open Knowledge Symposium, March 1, National Harbor, MD.

1. knowledge sharing and
education
kaitlin thaney
program manager for science, creative commons
1 march 2010 - ADEA - national harbor, MD
This presentation is licensed under the CreativeCommons-Attribution-3.0 license.
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2. information sharing is at the root of
scholarship and education
the system of print publishing is a
system of sharing knowledge
then came the move to digital ...
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3. the web revolutionized
search, commerce, collaboration
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4. sharing became cheaper,
easier technically
costs of copying, moving, storing ...
down to nearly zero
ability to link between nodes of
information (dating back to 1980s)
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5. yet ...
most of the useful knowledge
is inaccessible.
most of the useful knowledge is
in the wrong technology.
the ability to build upon is often
(unknowingly) stifled.
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6. make sharing easy, legal and scalable
integrated approach
building part of the infrastructure for
knowledge sharing
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7. projects
licensing search
science education
international
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8. knowledge?
curricula
discussion, video
articles
data
ontologies
annotations
plasmids and cell lines
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9. educational resources
knowledge?
curricula
discussion, video
articles
data
ontologies
annotations
plasmids and cell lines
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10. 1.
publishing:
it’s no longer about the container.
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12. media company response:
adjust the physical media
force the cd format
ignore that people...
like to make mixes.
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13. facing the same
paradigm shift for
education, science
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18. 2.
the “paper metaphor”
and why access is crucial
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19. scholarship entrenched in idea of
transmitting knowledge via paper
mentality reflected even in the way we
describe “papers”
static, one-dimensional documents,
compilations
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20. in the digital world, “papers” can
become living, breathing works
digitally enabled education
linking to courseware, relevant
discussions, information, videos, tools
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21. 3.
content needs to be legally and
technically accessible
... and what we mean by “access”
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22. indexing, translation, redistribution: disallowed
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23. Open Access (OA)
unlocks the content
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24. “ By open access to the literature, we mean its free
availability on the public internet, permitting users
to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link
to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for
indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for
any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from
gaining access to the internet itself.”
Image from the Public Library of Science, licensed to the public, under
CC-BY-3.0
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25. “The only constraint on reproduction and distribution,
and the only role for copyright in this domain, should
be to give authors control over the integrity of their
work and the right to be properly acknowledged
and cited.”
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26. legal
implementation
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33. international jurisdictions
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35. 4.
don’t forget the technical
component
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36. agreement
is hard.
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37. design for maximum reuse
data without structure and annotation is a
lost opportunity.
keep interoperability and access in mind
allow for snap together integration of the
tools, courseware, research literature
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38. what’s needed?
common standards, right software
accessible data and content
harmonization technically, legally
annotation, ability to link
build for network effects
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39. education is iterative
allow for that adaptation
discoverability is key
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40. thank you
kaitlin@creativecommons.org
sciencecommons.org
creativecommons.org
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