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Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln

Fire and Frost: The Virtues of Treating Museums, Libraries and Archives as Commons

Published: 19 January 2016

Civilization can't affort to lose archives and libraries. Free, unrestricted digital access is the key, and the creativity and action of citizens is what turns it in the lock. From the book "Patterns of Commoning"

By Michael Edson

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