Decentralized Open infrastructure: an example from The Blue Obelisk

The good news is that information infrastructure can be very cheap and – certainly at an early stage – can be radical altered (refactored) if the community wants. The key thing is COMMUNICATION. As long as we know what other people are doing and saying many of the difficulties are solved.

Blog entry by Peter Murray-Rust, open access & open knowledge advocate, works in Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.