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| | Building a Digital Library the Commons-based Peer Production Way |
 | | The name for the Noosphere system (as I use it) comes from the word "noosphere", as employed by Eric Raymond in "Homesteading the Noosphere" [Raymond, 1998b]. |
 | | Noosphere has drawn heavily upon such concepts, as well as the concepts of democracy, anarchy, capital, currency, common law, and natural law to create a self-regulating "economy of ideas". |
 | | While ownership is first assigned to the creator of an entry (strongly reminiscent of the "homesteading" method of acquiring property), the owner must adequately maintain the "property" of his or her entry to retain ownership (reminiscent of common law property rules, i.e., "use it or lose it"). |
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