Here are five ways we can help make the networking of knowledge the blessing it should be.
1. Open up access.
Open access journals are how our knowledge system would work if we hadn’t started it out on paper. Their articles are peer-reviewed, more people can learn from them, and the information they contain is available faster. Open access repositories provide a public place where scholars and researchers can make their work available at any point in its development process. These repositories make information and ideas available even sooner and give access to the occasional worthy thought that did not make it through peer review. We should support them.
2. Provide the hooks for intelligence.
The strategy of abundance has two main risks: First, we won’t find what we’re looking for. Second, we will find lots of appealing stuff that panders to our lowest desires. A single practice addresses both concerns, although imperfectly.
The solution to the information overload problem is to create more information: metadata. Providing metadata for what you post in the new public of the Net enables it to be found more easily. We can also make more sense of it, just as a caption helps us make sense of a photo.
When you put a label on a folder, you’re using metadata so that you can find the papers within it.
3. Link everything.
Linking situates your work within its context, tempting us to learn more. When Jillian York blogged a thoughtful response to a Malcolm Gladwell article on social media and the Arab spring, she hyperlinked to a post by Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia. York refers readers there not simply to acknowledge where she got the idea but to encourage them to drop into the web of which Ben Gharbia’s blog is the center.
4. Leave no institutional knowledge behind.
Our existing institutions have produced so much knowledge over the centuries that it would be tragic not to bring all of that knowledge to the Net. For example, we should be encouraging many more colleges to adopt the OpenCourseWare approach championed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which puts videos of classes on the web for free.
And libraries not only have content in books and articles, but they also have the expertise of librarians, they have metadata about usage patterns that can be used to guide researchers, and they are at the center of communities of scholars who are the most learned people in their fields. The Net becomes systemically smarter when all of this is made available.
5. Read good quality content
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