Creating a Knowledge Commons for Space Data Collaboration
Just posting here a thread about a new collaborative project to create knowledge graphs for space data and broadening that to include the platform and cultural components that can be built on graph structuring - something I refer to as a knowledge commons Working on an early draft of a general piece on the knowledge commons, and happy to include any and all interested. It will soon be posted as a living document An abstract for it, of sorts, might be:
The world is increasingly interconnected. As our society expands technologically and physically into space, our flourishing is inextricable from the space environment. However, our data and knowledge infrastructure has not kept pace with this rapid change. We face an imperative to create structures for our information that reflect interconnectedness and converging space with life on Earth.
A framework that meets the needs is a knowledge commons, a combination of intelligent information representation and the openness, governance, and trust required to create a participatory ecosystem whereby the whole community maintains and evolves the shared space. In this brief piece we create the seed of a vision for a space knowledge commons and an articulation of what needs to be done to achieve it. This framework, offered as a living document, is intended to be a seed for the convergent community capable of creating and sustaining the commons.
We believe this evolving conversation addressed the challenge for space data infrastructure that it is both technological and social. Open Science offers a guide for how to create and sustain a flourishing commons.