The Pharmaceutical Commons

The Pharmaceutical Commons

In the last decade, the organization of pharmaceutical research on neglected tropical diseases has undergone transformative change. In a context of perceived ‘‘market failure,’’ the development of new medicines is increasingly handled by public-private partnerships. This shift toward hybrid organizational models depends on a particular form of exchange: the sharing of proprietary assets in gene...

A New Pharmaceutical Commons: Transforming Drug Discovery

DBpedia Commons: Structured Multimedia Metadata from the Wikimedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of over twenty-five million freely usable audio, video and still image files, including scanned books, historically significant photographs, animal recordings, illustrative figures and maps. Being volunteer-contributed, these media files have different amounts of descriptive metadata with varying degrees of accuracy. The DBpedia Information Extracti...

Grazing the Budgetary Commons:

Sharing the Network Commons

The University provides computing and network facilities to its members as part of their common working environment. For this commons to be shared fairly and safely, it is important that all members understand how the network should be used, what risks may be associated with it, and how these risks are to be minimised. This paper provides an overview of the University’s network, our various net...