#knowledgecommons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #knowledgecommons, aggregated by home.social.
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How can Wikimedia help shape the future of AI — not only as a source of data, but as a model for human-governed knowledge?
On 29 May, Wikimedia CH will participate in the AI-BRIDGES Symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London alongside @wikimediaDE, @wikimediauk, Wikimedia Brasil, and pleias.
🔗 Programme and registration:
https://ai-bridges.org/2026/03/30/symposium-full-program/#Wikimedia #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenKnowledge #Wikidata #Wikipedia #KnowledgeCommons #PublicAI
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How can Wikimedia help shape the future of AI — not only as a source of data, but as a model for human-governed knowledge?
On 29 May, Wikimedia CH will participate in the AI-BRIDGES Symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London alongside @wikimediaDE, @wikimediauk, Wikimedia Brasil, and pleias.
🔗 Programme and registration:
https://ai-bridges.org/2026/03/30/symposium-full-program/#Wikimedia #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenKnowledge #Wikidata #Wikipedia #KnowledgeCommons #PublicAI
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How can Wikimedia help shape the future of AI — not only as a source of data, but as a model for human-governed knowledge?
On 29 May, Wikimedia CH will participate in the AI-BRIDGES Symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London alongside @wikimediaDE, @wikimediauk, Wikimedia Brasil, and pleias.
🔗 Programme and registration:
https://ai-bridges.org/2026/03/30/symposium-full-program/#Wikimedia #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenKnowledge #Wikidata #Wikipedia #KnowledgeCommons #PublicAI
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How can Wikimedia help shape the future of AI — not only as a source of data, but as a model for human-governed knowledge?
On 29 May, Wikimedia CH will participate in the AI-BRIDGES Symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London alongside @wikimediaDE, @wikimediauk, Wikimedia Brasil, and pleias.
🔗 Programme and registration:
https://ai-bridges.org/2026/03/30/symposium-full-program/#Wikimedia #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenKnowledge #Wikidata #Wikipedia #KnowledgeCommons #PublicAI
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How can Wikimedia help shape the future of AI — not only as a source of data, but as a model for human-governed knowledge?
On 29 May, Wikimedia CH will participate in the AI-BRIDGES Symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London alongside @wikimediaDE, @wikimediauk, Wikimedia Brasil, and pleias.
🔗 Programme and registration:
https://ai-bridges.org/2026/03/30/symposium-full-program/#Wikimedia #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenKnowledge #Wikidata #Wikipedia #KnowledgeCommons #PublicAI
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A question I cannot stop thinking about:
What would the internet look like if every piece of knowledge was:
— attributed to the people who created it
— stored somewhere no company can delete it
— owned fractionally by the community that built itThat is InsightNest. It is what we are building.
Built on the Logos ecosystem: Waku for discussion, Codex for storage, SIWE for identity.
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A question I cannot stop thinking about:
What would the internet look like if every piece of knowledge was:
— attributed to the people who created it
— stored somewhere no company can delete it
— owned fractionally by the community that built itThat is InsightNest. It is what we are building.
Built on the Logos ecosystem: Waku for discussion, Codex for storage, SIWE for identity.
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#Commonplace is a new experiment in community resource curation.
It gives groups a shared place to gather links, readings, tools, and other references, then make those collections easier to browse and reuse across the open web.
The intro post talks through the concept, the current setup, and how it could work for communities you are part of.
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/introducing-commonplace/
#Commonplace #CommunityCuration #KnowledgeCommons #OpenWeb #OER
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My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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My dad just published a book!
📕 Zhuangzi Notes and Reflections (2026) https://works.hcommons.org/records/89045-bcp64
“What I have written here is an English-language commentary on the classic Chinese Daoist text, the Zhuangzi. The book is named after the late fourth-century BCE philosopher Zhuang Zhou. I have posted it on an open access platform called Knowledge Commons. The link is to a free download”
#Daoist #Daoism #Taoism #ChinesePhilosophy #ChineseLiterature #Zhuangzi #ZhuangZhou #philosophy #KnowledgeCommons #FreeBook #eBook #CreativeCommons
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🍀 Sometimes the best research discoveries feel a little like luck.
When scholarship is shared openly, it becomes easier for scholars, students, and communities to find the ideas that inspire their work.
That’s the power of open knowledge.
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #Humanities #ScholarlyCommunication
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🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
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🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
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🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
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🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
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🍀 Feeling lucky this March?
The real pot of gold isn’t hidden at the end of a rainbow — it’s in open research and stronger scholarly connections.
When scholars share knowledge openly, discoveries travel farther, collaborations grow, and communities benefit.
That’s the kind of gold we’re after.
#OpenResearch #OpenScholarship #Humanities #KnowledgeCommons
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Dear Open Access,
Thanks for making research open, shareable, and easy to fall in love with. 💌 You help scholars and communities everywhere discover and connect through knowledge.We love supporting open research and helping humanities work reach the audiences it deserves.
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenAccess #OpenKnowledge #Humanities #ScholarlyCommunication
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One thing we love about Knowledge Commons is how it brings humanities scholars together to share open, accessible research across disciplines. Building community + supporting open knowledge = a win-win. 💗
#KnowledgeCommons #OpenKnowledge #AcademicResearch #ScholarlyCommunication
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Why do we love open access? 💖
Because knowledge should be shared, not locked away. At Knowledge Commons, we support open, accessible humanities research so scholars, students, and communities can discover and build on work without barriers.This month, we’re celebrating open knowledge and the impact it has across the humanities.
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If you missed #OpenEd2025 last week the #KnowledgeCommons lightning talk is now on KCWorks.
Publishing with Knowledge Commons and KCWorks https://works.hcommons.org/records/7wfx5-fys61
"During this session, we will demonstrate how Knowledge Commons can be utilized in the OER creation process by pointing to examples that have been published in various formats from across the platform. We will discuss how KC connects authors, audiences, and researchers, and makes knowledge available to the community. We will also discuss how our team has worked with our user community to cultivate open projects."
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Another great deposit in KCWorks from some folks at Punctum Books: Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response
https://works.hcommons.org/records/6ftf4-5xg24
"How can these OA publishers have a better view of how their publications are used with regard to the terms of their licenses, primarily in relation to commercial reuse (even while recognizing that there could never have a complete view, and that's okay)? How can OA publishers better monitor usage by nonhuman readers (AI bots) and the corporations to which they are tethered? How can they strategize to better confront and negotiate the massive extraction of profit from the scholarly labor OA presses and their authors produce and transmit, now and in the future?"
Worth a read.
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Another great deposit in KCWorks from some folks at Punctum Books: Open or Proprietary? AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response
https://works.hcommons.org/records/6ftf4-5xg24
"How can these OA publishers have a better view of how their publications are used with regard to the terms of their licenses, primarily in relation to commercial reuse (even while recognizing that there could never have a complete view, and that's okay)? How can OA publishers better monitor usage by nonhuman readers (AI bots) and the corporations to which they are tethered? How can they strategize to better confront and negotiate the massive extraction of profit from the scholarly labor OA presses and their authors produce and transmit, now and in the future?"
Worth a read.
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One of the things I love about working on Knowledge Commons is seeing some of the deposits we get to KCWorks, our open access repository.
This essay, "Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?," is one of my favorites of the week. The description is "An essay discussing the nature of definitions, using hotdogs as an illustrative example" and I'll be honest, it was both entertaining and educational.
Check it out.
https://works.hcommons.org/records/7sqf0-q1y18
#openaccessweek #openaccess #hotdog #sandwich #KnowledgeCommons
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New Terms and Conditions of #academia.edu are simply unacceptable. I’ll try to move things to #ResearchGate and, hopefully, to #KnowledgeCommons (hcommons.org) and then very probably delete my academia account completely.
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Update. Bad news from the #NEH for #KnowledgeCommons (and the rest of us).
https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access #Repository was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible."
PS: All the agencies covered by the #OSTP #NelsonMemo must designate #OpenAccess repositories for their OA content. NEH was the only agency to designate a repo not hosted by the govt. All the other agency repos will be hosted by the govt, where they will be subject to political censorship or takedowns.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #GreenOA #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. From @kfitz: "Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder"
https://about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/digital-preservation-in-a-time-of-disorder/"#KnowledgeCommons has applied for a significant grant from Lever for Change to build, implement, and sustain a digital preservation network that will be free from the US government’s, and any other single government’s, interference…KC is a #nonprofit, community-governed, #OpenAccess platform for creating and sharing knowledge world-wide…But, in the present moment, our US-centeredness is a significant threat to that mission. We propose to establish three linked but independent nonprofit public-benefit companies incorporated in the US, Europe, and South Africa, all dedicated to the social and technological processes of gathering, preserving, and ensuring the public accessibility of academic research."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
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A theme that many now discuss: the quality of information on the knowledge web. I first wrote about this on my blog back in June 2023. (I discuss it as part of 2 subsequent academic papers.) #genai #fakenews #misinformation #knowledgecommons https://penworks.net/blog/the-knowledge-web-problem
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I made a small gift to Wikipedia and you should too. Every little counts.
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We all want an open web, open knowledge, data, science and content (and AI). But when society makes power so unequal, so imbalanced economically, how can we continue like this?
#openweb #knowledgecommons #OpenAccess #ai #GenAI #academia #academicchatter
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My Website with homepage https://japanned.hcommons.org/ is at Knowledge Commons, formerly Humanities Commons. They have recently introduced a more detailed KC Works system of metadata and information on research repository deposits. The template of our profile pages allows for self-introductory and networking information as well as our deposits in the KC [Knowledge Commons] Works repository of academic and creative works. I have 85 deposits in a wide range of 25 genres or categories.
The new KC Works system also allows for editing and adding information, so I have gone through the 85 deposits, updating some of them especially to make the content more immediately accessible. Visitors to the deposit pages can usually see a PDF file of the content or download it, but if not, click on the Details tab and then the URL.
My Profile Page including the KCWorks deposits is at https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan
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Under the 2022 #OSTP #NelsonMemo, US federal funding agencies must make agency-funded research #OpenAccess in "agency-designated" #repositories. The same was true under the 2013 #HoldrenMemo. This is the first time that any federal agency has designated a repository neither built nor hosted by government agencies — an important milestone for #GreenOA. Kudos to #KnowledgeCommons (@hello).
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✊🏾💡 Common(s) Causes is an effort by @okfn @creativecommons @openfuture #WikimediaEurope to create a shared advocacy agenda for the #KnowledgeCommons.
📃 Our new report outlines opportunities and threats facing the open movement: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/11/18/report-open-movements-commons-causes/
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@chrisneedham In (at least) the second mode, we'd need at least one governance body (kinda like a certificate authority, maybe) to help everyone decide whether to trust the signing keys.
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Im writing a paper for an upcoming conference, probably titled 'The Knowledge Commons in the Age of AI". It will be a follow up to my paper from 2018 that discussed related topics (https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-018-0056-z ).
Though I will reflect on some positive issues, focus will be on risks and challenges, so it will be a critique, not in praise of, AI. Any thoughts you have, or resources youd want to recommend, feel free.
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Last month we participated in @wikimania 2024 organized under the theme "Collaboration of the Open." Learn more about the sessions our team led or took part in 👉 https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-at-wikimania-2024/ #DigitalCommons #KnowledgeCommons #Wikimania
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Planning to spend the summer in Europe? 🌞🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, we are hosting a side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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The tragedy of the knowledge commons, confirmed again by a very recent study, and predicted in 1993 by Turner, in "The Tragedy of the Commons and Distributed AI Systems". I write about this briefly in my HCII2024 paper (shared a few days ago) and another paper in the pipeline.
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@hello Happy rebirth day! Let me be perhaps the first to change my homepage over to Knowledge Commons :kc: atop https://japanned.hcommons.org
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@creativecommons @okfn @openfuture and #WikimediaEurope are hosting a day-long side event to #wikimania2024 The event will take place in Katowice, Poland, on 6 August 2024, the day before Wikimania kicks off on 7 August 2024.
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🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, @okfn is hosting a day-long side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Read more & register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, @okfn is hosting a day-long side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Read more & register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, @okfn is hosting a day-long side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Read more & register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, @okfn is hosting a day-long side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Read more & register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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🌱 Together with @openfuture #CreativeCommons and #WikimediaEurope, @okfn is hosting a day-long side event to @wikimania 2024 to define a shared advocacy strategy for the #KnowledgeCommons.
👉🏾 Read more & register your interest: https://blog.okfn.org/2024/05/01/commons-cause-towards-a-shared-advocacy-strategy-for-the-knowledge-commons
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When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.
#ai #ChatGPT #midjourney #academicchatter #academicmastodon #PinkSlime #knowledgecommons
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Today I am mostly planning a paper on the future of civic/citizen digital archives being in the Fediverse
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The Wikipedia UI gets its long awaited refresh. Better search but superior navigation -- I particularly prefer the table of contents within the left column. Excellent! I'm an avid Wikipedian so this is to be welcome, although I note that the changes within the editing dashboard remain minimal....
#Wikipedia Gets a Fresh New Look: First Desktop Update in a Decade Puts #Usability at the Forefront
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/01/18/wikipedia-gets-a-fresh-new-look-first-desktop-update-in-a-decade-puts-usability-at-the-forefront/ #OpenCommons #KnowledgeCommons #OpenKnowledge