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Recovering Knowledge Commons and the Global South (Advocacy (For born…

- - - - Recollection through repetition
      - Localisation
      - Interpolation
      - Embodied acts of transfer
        
        Requires presence
      - Traditions may be traced
      - Traditions may discontinue
  - - - Separates knower from known
      - Stable form
      - Preservation
        
        Printed books widely distributed
        
        Higher probability of surviving fire and acts of war
    - - Access
        
        India Office Library
  - - - Data collection through algorithms
      - Privacy/ Anonimity compromised
      - Privatisation of Publics
        
        Data under proprietorial control
        
        User generated data/ content
        
        Digitised archives
        
        Marketed by Scholarly/ Digital Repositories
      - Unified ownership for
        
        Network infrastructure
        
        Online content
        
        Low density of nodes
        
        Greater costs of set up and maintenance
        
        Alignment with interests of the State
    - - No-whereness
      - Greater access
        
        Curtailed by proprietorial models of curation and distribution
      - Algorithms
        
        Works on
        
        Born digital content
        
        Digital Social
        
        User generated data
        
        Customised curation
        
        Personalised feed
        
        Choices enacted by the algorithm
        
        Impersonal/ Proprietorial control
    - - Digitised Archives
        
        Scholarly Digital Repositories
        
        Proprietory
        
        Profit model
        
        Investment in digitisation
        
        Copy shared with archive holders
        
        Pay wall for users
        
        Implications for third world institutions
        
        Royalty paid to archive holders
        
        1947 Partition Archives
        
        Non-profit
        
        Collects, preserves and shares witnesses of the partition
        
        Funded by donations/ crowdsourcing
        
        Online access restricted
        
        Metadata for 50 interviews
        
        Summary posts on Social Meida channels
        
        Forthcoming: Physical exhibits of 5300 oral history documents and 30,000 digital documents at Indian Universities
        
        Release form for interviewees
        
        "I convey all legal title and literary property rights that I have or may be deemed to have in my interview and any transcript made of it, as well as all my rights, title and interest in any copyright that may be secured under the laws now or later in force and effect. My conveyance of copyright encompasses the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, preparation of derivative works, public performance, and public display as well as all renewals and extensions."
        
        Pad.ma
        
        Created on pan.do/ra
        
        Free, Open Source, Media Archive platform
        
        For managing large, decentralised collections of video
      - Born digital content
        
        Gmail
        
        Unlimited storage
        
        Crawled by algorithms
        
        Access for (future) research?
        
        WhatsApp
        
        Encrypted content
        
        Access for (future) research?
        
        Wikipedia
        
        Free, Open Source platform
        
        All revisions archived
        
        Full data download
      - Sharing/ Gift economy
        
        Libreoffice
        
        Free, Open Source alternative to proprietorial office software
        
        Fork from OpenOffice
        
        Due to shift in ownership from Sun Microsystems to Oracle
        
        "Oracle is following its own agenda and strategy... A vibrant OpenOffice.org project and community were just not part of the plans."
        
        "copyright assignment needed to contribute to OpenOffice.org is constraining us more than anything else"
        
        "LibreOffice is a transparent project that is committed to code and users' freedom and the never-ending commitment to Open Standards"
        
        Multiple mirrors
        
        Volunteer developer community
        
        Linux distributions - Ubuntu
        
        Free, Open Source OS
        
        Multiple mirrors
        
        Volunteer developer community
        
        Lib.gen
        
        36% of all DOI papers are available for free at LibGen
        
        95% educational
        
        LibGen releases all its code and data
        
        Fosters several mirrors (e.g.,gen.lib.rus.ec)
        
        Launch other websites (e.g.,bookzz.org)
        
        Crowdsourcing
        
        reddit
        
        hashtag #icanhazpdf to mark tweets requesting a paper
        
        Torrent
        
        Distributed content
        
        Across individual devices on the network
    - - ARPA NET
        
        1962 - a “galactic network” of computers that could talk to one another. Such a network would enable government leaders to communicate even if the Soviets destroyed the telephone system.
        
        Packet switching breaks data down into blocks, or packets, before sending it to its destination. That way, each packet can take its own route from place to place.
        
        a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another.
        
        Network infrastructure not under centralized/ proprietorial control
        
        Costs distributed
        
        High density of nodes