Scholarship, research and education deserves dedicated, secure infrastructure that is locked open and under community control. The path to get there involves seeding many open source projects and service providers and for the adopting community to be involved and engaged in the design, build, governance and sustainability of its own infrastructure.

1. Scholarly Infrastructure:
Baking in equity and community
alignment
SPARC/ARCLPanel
ALA Midwinter
January 25,2019
Kristen Ratan
@kristenratan

2. 1.Rapid
2. Complete
3. Open

3. @kristenratan

4. 4@kristenratan
But, mired in print paradigms, proprietary
infrastructure, and subscription business
models, scholarly communication is slow,
incomplete, and often closed

5. Speeding up research
Communicating all research outputs
Equitable access to scholarship - to
read and produce

7. Infrastructure
built
Contributions
Community
Adoption
Problem
Panic

8. Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.
By Nadia Eghbal, funded by the Ford Foundation, published 14 July 2016

9. Open Infrastructure Ecosystem

10. Broad adoption
Service providers
Partnering tech
organizations
Funders and
Stakeholders
First wave adoption
Early adopters
Code contributors
Core OS project
Community Led
Open Source
Core OS
project
Core OS
project

12. Kristen Ratan
kristen@coko.foundation
Co-Founderand Executive Director
Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
coko.foundation
@cokofoundation
@kristenratan