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The enclosure of scholarly
infrastructureGeoffrey Bilder
Director of Strategic Initiatives@gbilder
OpenConBrussels, 2015
infrastructure |ˈɪnfrəstrʌktʃə|nounthe basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. the social and economic infrastructure of a country.
Oxford Dictionary of English
enterprise
federated
distributed
user-centric
lightweight
framework
fabric
web-scale
event-driven
open
"Framework," "fabric," "harmonise," "distributed," "interoperability"- are all becoming words of equivocation & prevarication. They are presented as mechanisms to ensure robustness and to distribute risk, but they are increasingly code-words used to disguise and provide a polite veneer to struggle over control of resources and money.