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Knowledge commons

The term "knowledge commons" refers to information, data, and content that is collectively owned and managed by a community of users, particularly over the Internet. What distinguishes a knowledge commons from a commons of shared physical resources is that digital resources are non-subtractible; that is, multiple users can access the same digital…

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Conceptual background

The commonsOpen Educational ResourcesOpenCourseWareWikipediaCreative Commons
16 related topics

Copyleft

CopyleftGNUGPLLGPLGFDL
8 related topics

Overview

InternetCommonsNon-subtractible
3 related topics

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Copyleft

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Knowledge commons

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples104
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

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Knowledge commons

Top relations

related to External links · 72
Knowledge commons → Abrell, Action, Administrative Culture, Angela, Archived, Benefits, Brett, Building Institutions, By Vasilis Kostakis, Christopher Dye, Commons, Cultural, Dec, Digital Governance, Digital Revolution, DOI, Dunlop, Ecuador, Edited, Elan
related to background · 17
Knowledge commons → According, Charlotte Hess, Creative Commons, Elinor Ostrom, European, Merton, MIT OpenCourseWare, Open Design, Open Educational Resources, Public Library, Robert, Science, Science Commons, Second, The, United States, Wikipedia
related to Copyleft · 7
Knowledge commons → Copyleft, Free Software Foundation, GFDL, GNU Software Licenses, GPL, LGPL, Popular
is a · 1
Knowledge commons → model for a number of domains

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Important terminology

commons knowledge digital archived open information shared copyleft free science term resources users research software rights production robert resource institutions

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Knowledge commonsis amodel for a number of domains0.90text
the MIT OpenCourseWareinstance ofincluding Open Educational Resources0.80text
free digital media such as Wikipediainstance ofincluding Open Educational Resources0.80text
Creative Commonsinstance ofincluding Open Educational Resources0.80text
right to studyinstance ofCopyleft licenses grant licensees all necessary rights0.80text
useinstance ofCopyleft licenses grant licensees all necessary rights0.80text
changeinstance ofCopyleft licenses grant licensees all necessary rights0.80text
redistributeinstance ofCopyleft licenses grant licensees all necessary rights0.80text
Knowledge commonsrelated to backgroundThe0.60section
Knowledge commonsrelated to backgroundOpen Educational Resources0.60section
Knowledge commonsrelated to backgroundMIT OpenCourseWare0.60section
Knowledge commonsrelated to backgroundWikipedia0.60section

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