This file collects information related to the concept of the Commons, both in general and as it applies to the sharing of scientific data and related information at the NIH and beyond.
- Book: Patterns of Commoning
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Science is increasingly a collaborative enterprise, but its infrastructure, social and technical, lags behind.
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- Wikimedia 2030
- Humanities Commons
- Pelagios Commons
- A New Pharmaceutical Commons: Transforming Drug Discovery
- Virtual Observatory
- At NIH
- Overview
- multiple other agencies (e.g. NIST) have also indicated interest in a "research data commons", and USDA launched their Ag Data Commons in October 2015 (see also this presentation)
- legal structure: Benefit corporation
- Jefferson Digital Commons
- "The Jefferson Digital Commons is a service of Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). The Commons is a showcase for Jefferson books and journals, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, unique historical collections from the University archives, and teaching tools. The Jefferson Digital Commons allows researchers and interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Jefferson scholarship."
- Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington
- At DOE
- Energy Science and Technology Software Center (no data commons, but for software)
- European Open Science Cloud
- International Association for the Study of the Commons
- IASC 2017: Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017.
- Squaring Circles: The economics and governance of scholarly infrastructures
- Zenodo
- dedicated group on Patient data (experimental)
- World Intellectual Freedom Organization
- International & Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IIRGs)
- Towards a European Open Science Cloud (event)
- Cloud technology: the advantages and disadvantages for universities
- Ethereum
- allows for exchanges of tokens of value (e.g. Commons credit)
- OECD report on Open Science (2015)
- "Open science in the information age espouses the notion that knowledge created from public research has public good characteristics that go beyond the concept of the “commons” developed in the 18th century, insofar as ICT-enabled access broadens the possibilities to enrich the commons and extend it to a broader range of users. "
- Generic Research Data Infrastructure (GeRDI)
- Startup Crunches 100 Terabytes of Data in a Record 23 Minutes
- Virtual Machine Manager (CERN)
- replaced by CernVM
- Audrey Tang: Stories from the Future of Democracy
- Wikimedia Labs
- NeuroVault
- X-Road — a kind of privacy-aware Commons for data in Estonia