Two Short Papers on Peer-Produced Digital Libraries

Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Tim Armstrong

Readers of this blog with an interest in open-access issues may enjoy a pair of short essays I recently posted on SSRN. They bring together a fair amount of the thinking I previously deployed in piecemeal fashion on this blog here, here, here, here, here, and here. (My co-bloggers, of course, have written very perceptively [...]

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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Law School, Open Access, Peer Production, Scholarship

Crowdsourced Diagnosis of Harvard Law Professor’s Mystery Ailment

Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Tim Armstrong

Fans of the open-source software movement are acquainted with Linus’ Law: “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” Translated into something more closely approximating conversational English, it means: the more people who examine a problem, the more likely it is that the solution will occur to at least one of them, even if the problem [...]

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