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What should a shared infrastructure look like? Infrastructure at its best is invisible. We tend to only notice it when it fails
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Currently, the most obvious business model is a board-governed, not-for-profit membership organisation
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federation did not prevent centralisation and control. And historically, this has occurred outside of stewardship to the community
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Too often in the past we have used technical approaches, such as federation, to combat the fear that a system can be co-opted or controlled by unaccountable parties. Instead we need to consider how the community can create accountable and trustworthy organisations
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"Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly infrastructures. We propose a set of principles by which Open Infrastructures to support the research community could be run and sustained. - Geoffrey Bilder, Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon"