====== (draft) What is Ontological Commoning? ======
===== A provisional research agenda =====
//This will be a paper, dealing in detail with the ideas raised on [[d:2023-02-22]], but it has not yet been started.//

//I'd like this paper to have the strength of collaboration behind it. So if you would like to contribute in any way, please get in touch. I can give you permission to draft here, provided I am free to edit. See [[d:2023-02-22|the initial ideas page]], and please let me know how your ideas fit in. (e-mail asimong at the usual gmail.com)//

===== Possible titles =====
  * Ontological commoning: a practice to support meaningful collaboration around complex commons
  * How do you make a commons from ontologies?

===== Outline ideas =====
==== How do you make a commons from ontologies ====
Here the emphasis is more on the technical support
  * what are ontologies and commoning (as [[d:2023-02-22]])
  * why ontologies are rarely held in common
  * look at Ostrom's principles
  * look at Ostrom et al's idea of intellectual commons, and its weaknesses
  * ownership by users: communities of practice
    * naturally done in small enough groups by ordinary conversation
  * what about ownership and governance by larger, distributed groups?
  * examine possibilities
    * DAOs, DiSCOs, supporting sociocracy in distributed groups
    * accessible repository
    * ongoing dialogue practice

==== Ontological commoning: a practice to support meaningful collaboration around complex commons ====
Here the emphasis is more on the side of human dialogue practice
  * Illustrating everyday unspoken ontology
  * specialist ontology among communities of practice dealing with their own area
  * examples of complex domains
    * (need some good examples where there is difference)
    * say climate crisis/change
    * say degrowth
    * anything of the polycrisis / metacrisis?
      * [[https://www.zurich.com/en/knowledge/topics/global-risks/the-good-news-hidden-inside-todays-polycrisis|Zurich.com]]
      * [[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/polycrisis-global-risks-report-cost-of-living/|World Economic Forum]]
  * on all these issues we see polarization and fragmentation
    * they all have to do with global commons in some way
  * so how can ontological commoning address this kind of thing?
    * dialogue is challenging, but brings people together


===== Commentary =====


=== topics ===
  * [[t:Ontological Commoning]]
  * [[t:ontology]]

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