Tacit Knowledge in Open Knowledge

Slide 1:What early Linux developers can teach us about open knowledge Ben Spigel Department of Geography The Ohio State University spigel.1@osu.edu

Slide 2: The problem of knowledge on the internet • Open knowledge is useless unless people use it • One must understand knowlege in order to use it • How do we develop this understanding for users of open knowledge?

Slide 3: Why is this a problem for open knowledge • People need to learn how to use the knowledge • People need to learn why the knowledge should be open • This is hard to do over the internet

Slide 4: What is knowledge? •More than just facts •Applied information •Information modified by human intelligence

Slide 5: Why is knowledge hard to understand • Communication requires a shared 'language' • Even if everyone speaks