Agricultural Knowledge Concordance: Civic Infrastructure & Lending Libraries

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Organizer(s) Concordance, Indigidao, OpenTEAM, Farm Hack, Distributed Web (DWeb) community, Internet Archive
Place Internet Archive, San Francisco, California
Date(s) October 24, 2025
Purpose The inaugural Concordance event will launch the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance series, convening aligned communities from IndigiDao, Code for Science and Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society,  Farm Hack, OpenTEAM, and DWeb to explore civic infrastructure, distributed knowledge systems, and the role of lending libraries in sustaining a planetary agricultural knowledge atlas. The gathering will focus on connecting the open knowledge movement to agricultural and ecological commons stewardship through interoperable, decentralized infrastructure.
GIAA organization(s) involved Grassroots Innovation Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA), Farm Hack, OpenTEAM, Internet Archive
Short writeup of activities and outcomes Hosted at the Internet Archive, this convening will mark the first in the Concordance series designed to align open agricultural and civic data communities. Participants will prototype frameworks for cataloging and preserving agricultural knowledge using distributed web technologies, discuss metadata and provenance standards, and build bridges between open-source hardware, lending libraries, and civic institutions. The outcomes will include draft templates for shared data provenance and consent management, early design sketches for the Agricultural Knowledge Atlas interface, and commitments from DWeb, OpenTEAM, and Internet Archive collaborators to co-develop a participatory governance framework for commons-aligned digital public infrastructure.