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  1. The central point of this keynote seems to be: how come Wikimedia can do information commons so well and HE repositories can't? #rfringe16
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      To which I speculate: inherent conservatism of HE; lack of resource investment in open, information commons work in HE; cowardice #rfringe16
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        Journal-to-Wiki and Wiki-to-Journal are attempts to bridge the chasm between Wikimedia's open commons and HE's "open" "commons" #rfringe16
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          Re. information-as-a-commons and HE. See doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182 by @lawsonstu, @moananddrone, and @walkyouhome #rfringe16
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          To preserve educational content long-term, we need to preserve its relevance which involves preserving its ability to change #rfringe16
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            i.e. dynamic WikiMedia-style content rather than static academic journal-style content #rfringe16