Slides of keynote presentation to 2009 Computers in Libraries conference. 4/1/09. See also text of the talk which is uploaded as a PDF. This material is in the Public Domain, except some of the supporting photography and graphs. Video of me giving this presentation is at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1327813
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"Imagining a Smithsonian Commons" CIL 2009 Michael Edson PowerPoint
1. Imagining a Smithsonian Commons Michael Edson Director, Web and New Media Strategy Smithsonian Institution, Office of the CIO Computers in Libraries (CIL) 2009
15. What is a Commons? An organized workshop where raw materials can be found and assembled into new things.
16. What is a Commons? “ The public domain is not some gummy residue left behind when all the good stuff has been covered by property law. The public domain is the place where we quarry the building blocks of our culture.” James Boyle