Keynote Speech @ MERLOT International Conference 2009

MERLOT 2009

14 august 2009san jose, ca

john wilbanks

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

1.innovation as an emergent property of

networks...


rests on standards-based transactions...


Huntingtons


Parkinsons

Huntingtons

ALS

Multiple Sclerosis

Autism




map of the internet, 1/2006Tuesday, August 18, 2009

why do we need to network scholars?


exponential content growth


00.25

0.50

0.75

1.00

1990 1994 1998 2002

our brain capacity


innovation


rests on standards-based knowledgetransactions...


scholarly knowledge




journal articlesdata

learning modulesannotations

wikis


...we dont ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.

eben moglen, 1999


...we dont ask what the incentive is for the electrons to leave home. We say that the current results from an emergent property of the system, which we call induction.

The question we ask is whats the resistance of the wire?

eben moglen, 1999







people arent compatibly communicating.


people arent compatibly communicating.


2.connecting peoples creative output:

the digital commons



analog

allpossible uses of a

work

uses implicating

law

fair uses


digital

*where every use is a copy.

uses implicating

law

allpossible uses of a work*

fair uses


The State of theCommons Prior to 2002

Pre-1923 works, Federal Government Works, etc.

Orphan WorksFree

SoftwareEverything from Disney filmsto your notes, to most of the

web.

Default Automatic All Rights ReservedPublic Domain

No Rights Reserved


ignoring the law does not scale.


computers

documents

knowledge

tcp/ip

html/http

commons




Default Automatic All Rights ReservedPublic Domain

No Rights Reserved


cNo Rights Reserved All Rights ReservedSome Rights Reserved


Attribution

Non-Commercial No Derivative Works

Share Alike

Step 1: Choose Conditions


Step 2: Receive a License


three different formats:





International Jurisdictions


Licensed Objects via G/Y!





image from the public library of science

licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0



what do these

ideas mean in a world of integrated

data?


scientific data commons


103 databases - just molecular biology


interoperability...




interoperability...


coffee

cafe

kopi

cafezinho

koffee

espresso

latte

mocha americano


URL

coffee

cafe

kopi http://ontology.foo.org/1234567

converge on common names.


interoperability...Tuesday, August 18, 2009


patent exchange for sustainability technology

based on public licenses

c

interoperability...





3.think about the right to write, not

just the right to copy.




CC? good.


CC? good.but...


more permissions = more writers.





what about...translation?

porting to OLPC?


what about...translation?

porting to OLPC?things we havent yet invented?


No Rights Reserved All Rights ReservedSome Rights Reserved

attribution


http://bit.ly/13x3EUTuesday, August 18, 2009


embrace the unexpected use.






two futures.




the license is simply a part of the community.


reader or writer?


writers. makers. learners.





what can you do?

youve already made the most important choice.

is the community ready to go more interoperable?



I propose the seeming paradox that in science, private property is established by

having its substance freely given to others

Merton


thank you

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation

CHDI FoundationOmidyar Network

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