This video provides an overview of the history of digital knowledge commons, as well as some of the challenges facing today's digital knowledge commons and academic social networking sites. These challenges include the enclosure or commercialization of commons; the exploitation of researchers and research data; and the exclusion of certain people from digital spaces. It concludes with a brief discussion of how not-for-profit digital knowledge commons such as the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Commons are working to address these challenges.

1. commons
2. critical infrastructure studies
3. digital humanities
4. digital knowledge commons
5. digital research commons
6. digital research infrastructure
7. digital scholarship
8. open scholarship
9. open social scholarship

Original publication information: This video is adapted, with permission, from... Jensen, Graham. "Introduction: Creating Connections in and through Knowledge Commons." Open Scholarship Press Collections: Connection. Gen. ed. Ray Siemens and Alyssa Arbuckle. Open Scholarship Press. [Forthcoming.]