1. open access, the commons, and the next layer of the network
john wilbanks
19 may, 2011
prague
TERENA 2011

2. thanks
GyngyiHorvth
Ana Preston
3. 4. 5. some years ago word reached me concerning your proficiency, of which everybody constantly spoke. At that time I began to have a very high regard for you... For I had learned that you had not merely mastered the discoveries of the ancient astronomers uncommonly well but had also formulated a new cosmology. In it you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe... Therefore with the utmost earnestness I entreat you, most learned sir, unless I inconvenience you, to communicate this discovery of yours to scholars, and at the earliest possible moment to send me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this subject ...
6. research needs to be communicated to be powerful.
7. 8. 1. the unexpected power of the law to defeat unexpected uses of technology.
9. 10. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/historical.html
11. nothing in the architecture to prevent people from building
12. 13. 14. 15. Licensed under CC BY SA by Ed Uthman,http://www.flickr.com/photos/78147607@N00
16. 1987
17. Text
unexpected development: hypertext and browsers.
18. unexpected development: content industry disruption.
19. something in the architecture to prevent people from sharing
20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. @ $20 per article$10, 940
(why I do what I do)
26. the unexpected power of the law to enable unexpected uses of technology.
27. 2. the network fragments content that used to be integrated by its medium.
28. 29. 30. http://www.businessinsider.com/these-charts-explain-the-real-death-of-the-music-industry-2011-2
31. 32. http://youtu.be/pLix4QPL3tY
33. 34. all because of a simple, open, standard, common network design.
35. industries not transformed:science-industrial complexeducation-industrial complexgovernment-industrial complexresearch-industrial complexmedical-industrial complex
36. 37. 2. resisting the resistance is an emergent property of networked people.
38. 39. 40. 41. changes in metrics
42. 43. changes in peer review style
44. 45. changes in publishable objects
46. 47. changes in collaboration
48. 49. and now I can be part of it, too.
50. 51. 52. 53. 54. genomic
expression
model
clinical
55. resisting the resistance is a human activity.
56. 3. we must apply network design principles at the content and data layers, if we want this to work.
57. 58. therefore, the digital Commons.
thesis: sharing drives innovation, reuse,and social benefit.
goal: make sharing complicated things easy.
solution:
voluntary, standard legal tools
technically implemented
user interface to copyright
59. 60. but thats just counting what gets posted.
61. aggregation. tagging. non-linearity. flow. reuse. adaptation.
Wikimedia globe is & All rights reserved, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
62. nothing in the architecture legal or technical to prevent unexpected use.
image released into the public domain by DBpedia team, http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbpedia
63. http://www.selventa.com/technology/white-papers
64. beyond the copyright
65. 66. 67. 68. 69. Browser Window
Freedoms you are granting
Right to do research with your data
Right to redistributeyour data
Right to publish results of research from your data
Right to commercialize products derived from research on your data




70. Browser Window
Obligations you are imposing
I dont want to be re-identified
Only health research allowed.
Only disease research allowed.



71. Browser Window
Warning
This is serious. Have you watched the video and read the legal text?
No
Yes
72. 73. it wasnt inevitable.
74. 75. design for re-integration. by others.as you federate, plan for the next layer.expect more data, and less skill at using it.build commons into your infrastructure.
76. p.s.we have no idea how weird its going to get.
77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. how does your network react in the world that is racing right at us?
83. 84. in a world of constant change, open systems can out-evolve closed ones.
85. thanks.wilbanks@creativecommons.org@wilbanks