eIFL General Assembly

eIFL general assembly

20 november 2009alexandria, egypt

john wilbanks

Friday, November 20, 2009

knowledge needs a linked web future.


knowledge needs a linked web future.

libraries + commons = infrastructure.


pick the most likely scenario circa 1990:

(apologies to Jamie Boyle)Friday, November 20, 2009

less likely in reality than the theoretical impossibilities of free software and wikipedia.


but it is coming, one way or another...


1. power is shifting to the user of content.


media company response:

protect the business model.


after all, it’s your music.


now a computer company dominates the music industry.


rip. mix. burn.

after all, it’s your knowledge.


article knowledge governance:

registrationcertificationdisseminationpreservation


registrationcertification

disseminationpreservation


someone’s going to enabledistributed peer review.


2. the “paper” is not the natural knowledge

unit of scholarship.


captured by technology...


knowledge in“permanent beta”


knowledge units:

narratives“data”technologies


(not the old institutions!)


“small parts loosely joined”

1. shared standards2. shared infrastructure3. democratized access4. rights to the user


3. whatever the knowledge, it has to

start with legal openness.


side effect of using paper to transfer knowledge...


property rightsFriday, November 20, 2009

the digital commons - another network layer.


computers

documents

knowledge

tcp/ip

html/http

commons


global NGO / non profit organization


launched licenses


in progress...


licensed objects via google/Yahoo!


image from the public library of sciencelicensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0

>1000 journals under CC


“new” knowledge units


©in relation to data...


category errors


4. after legal openness comes links and

semantics


hyperlinks for everything.


coffeecafe

kopicafezinho

koffee

espresso

latte

mocha americano


“coffee”

“cafe”

“kopi”

http://ontology.foo.org/1234567

converge on common names.


http://ontology.foo.org/receptor

http://ontology.foo.org/receptor

www


semantics: what does it mean?


5.libraries: infrastructure for the

next network.


what can you do?


cyberinfrastructureFriday, November 20, 2009

process revolutions: the network


institutional revolutions: the library


the library to me:

location, structure, discovery, preservation


“In any case, it is clear that a library containing all possible books, arranged at random, is

equivalent (as a source of information) to a library containing zero books.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel




“the five laws of the library”


1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader his [or her] book.

3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the User.

5. The library is a growing organism.

“the five laws of the library”


what’s the digital version of the five laws?


select ?gene_name ?process_namewhere{ PropertyValue(?pubmed_record, ?p, mesh:D009369) PropertyValue(?article, sc:identified_by_pmid , ?pubmed_record) PropertyValue(?gene_record, sc:describes_gene_or_gene_product_mentioned_by, ?article) SubClassOf(?protein, some(ro:has_function, some(ro:realized_as, ?process))) SubClassOf(?process, or(go:GO_0006610, some(ro:part_of, go:GO_0006610)) SubClassOf(?protein, some(sc:is_protein_gene_product_of_dna_described_by,?gene_record)) Annotation(?gene_record,rdfs:label,{?gene_name}) Annotation(?process,rdfs:label,?process_name)}


library


map of the internet, 1/2006Friday, November 20, 2009

from simple, open beginnings come powerful systems.


thank you

john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundationewing marion kauffman foundationchdi foundationomidyar networknike, inc.best buy, inc.yahoo!, inc.mountain equipment corporationsergey brin and anne wojcicki


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