Systemic Change in Knowledge Production: Introducing the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

SystemicChangein

KnowledgeProduction

V1givenatDLRN2015,Stanford

KristenRatan@kristenratanAdamHyde@booksprint

October2015

humanknowledgeisdoublingevery13months

IndustryTap:http://www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-every-12-hours/3950

VisualizationfromtheOpteProject

Butknowledgeproductiontodayis

•  createdinisolation,collaborationisrare•  authoredinunstructured,proprietaryformats•  generallynotveryaccessible•  oftenbehindpaywalls•  publishedwithafractionoftheoriginaldata•  slowandcostlytoproduce

Newmodelsareemerging

•  BuiltOStools:Booki,Lexicon,Objavi,andBookJS,•  CreatedtheBookSprintsmethod•  FoundedBookSprintsLtd•  FoundedFLOSSManuals•  FoundedBooktype,PubSweet

BookSprintsFounder,AdamHyde

Facilitation

Methodology

Platform

BookSprints

Technologyhasbeentheweakleg

Meanwhile,

KristenRatan,thenPublisheratPLOS,wasfrustratedwithjournalpublishingtechnologies.AdamandKristenjoinedforcestocreatelastingchangeinknowledgeproductionacrossallformsofscholarship.

Webelieve:Truesystemicchangeinknowledge

productionrequiresascalable,flexibleandadaptableopensource

technologysolution

coko.foundation@cokofoundation

FoundedOctober2015

CKFisbuildingPubSweet2

CKFwillbringcollaborationtothecreationand

productionofscholarlyknowledge

Wewillexpandthetool-kitavailabletothosewishingtochangeknowledgeproduction

PubSweet2isBornNetworked

BornAccessible

BornArchivable

BornOpen

BornCompliant

BornLinked

TheresultwillbeanenvironmentthatenablestheFair,RapidandCompletecommunicationofscholarshipthatis

accessiblebyall

Joinus

coko.foundation@cokofoundation

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