collaborative knowledge foundation: systemic change in knowledge production
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SystemicChangein
KnowledgeProduction
V1givenatDLRN2015,Stanford
KristenRatan@kristenratanAdamHyde@booksprint
October2015
humanknowledgeisdoublingevery13months11IndustryTap:http://www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-every-12-hours/3950
VisualizationfromtheOpteProject
Butknowledgeproductiontodayis
• stillconcentratedinhighincomenations• createdlargelyinisolation• authoredinunstructured,proprietaryformats• notcreatedinwaysthatareaccessible• producedusingprint-basedworkflows• oftenbehindpaywalls• publishedwithafractionoftheoriginaldata• slowandcostlytoproduce
• BuiltOStools:Booki,Lexicon,Objavi,andBookJS,• CreatedtheBookSprintsmethod• FoundedBookSprintsLtd• FoundedFLOSSManuals• FoundedBooktype,PubSweet
BookSprintsFounder,AdamHyde
Meanwhile,
Kristen,thenPublisheratPLOS,wasfrustratedwithjournalpublishingtechnologies.AdamandKristenjoinedforcestocreatelastingchangeinknowledgeproductionacrossallformsofscholarship.
Webelieve:Truesystemicchangeinknowledge
productionrequiresascalable,flexibleandadaptableopensource
technologysolution
CKFwillexpandthetool-kitavailabletothosewishingtochangeknowledgeproduction
Wewillbringcollaborationtothecreationandproductionofscholarlyknowledge
TheresultwillbeanenvironmentthatenablestheFair,RapidandComplete
communicationofscholarship
availabletoeveryone