The Scholarly Commons

Preserving the Scholarly Commons in the Digital Era

Managing the data commons: Controlled sharing of scholarly data

This paper describes the range and variation in access and use control policies and tools used by 24 web-based data repositories across a variety of fields. It also describes rationale provided by repositories for their decisions to control data or provide means for depositors to do so. Using a purposive exploratory sample, we employed content analysis of repository website documentation, a web...

The "Wealth of Networks" and Institutional Repositories: MIT, DSpace, and the Future of the Scholarly Commons

Open Access: the new frontier connecting the learning commons through hassle-free and seamless scholarly communication

DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of over twenty-five million freely usable audio, video and still image files, including scanned books, historically significant photographs, animal recordings, illustrative figures and maps. Being volunteer-contributed, these media files have different amounts of descriptive metadata with varying degrees of accuracy. The DBpedia Information Extracti...