eIFL General Assembly

eIFL general assembly

20 november 2009
alexandria, egypt

john wilbanks

Friday, November 20, 2009

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.

registration
certiﬁcation
dissemination
preservation


someone’s going to enable
distributed peer review.


2.
the “paper” is not the natural knowledge
unit of scholarship.


captured by technology...


3.
whatever the knowledge, it has to
start with legal openness.


side effect of using paper
to transfer knowledge...


property rights

the digital commons - another
network layer.


computers tcp/ip

documents html/http

knowledge commons


global NGO / non proﬁt organization


licensed objects via google/Yahoo!


>1000 journals under CC
image from the public library of science
licensed to the public under CC-BY 3.0


“new” knowledge units


©
in relation to data...

category errors


4.
after legal openness comes links and
semantics


hyperlinks for everything.


espresso
coffee
cafe
kopi
cafezinho

latte koffee

mocha americano


converge on common names.

“coffee”

“cafe” http://ontology.foo.org/1234567

“kopi”


www


semantics: what does it
mean?


5.
libraries: infrastructure for the
next network.


what can you do?


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”


“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.


what’s the digital version of the
ﬁve laws?


select ?gene_name ?process_name
where
{ 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, 1/2006

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