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-Closely following on from Fuller and Haque's interrogation of architecture [http://uvs.propositions.org.uk/ 1] "What lessons, if any, can architecture learn from software development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software movement?" [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html 2], the intention of this paper is to similarly create a Versioning System, in this case for Objects, to contribute to a new museology that radically challenges the conventional ways in which museums are constructed.
+Closely following on from Fuller and Haque's interrogation of architecture http://uvs.propositions.org.uk/
+] "What lessons, if any, can architecture learn from software development, and more specifically, from the Free, Libre, and Open Source Software movement?" http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
+] the intention of this paper is to similarly create a Versioning System, in this case for Objects, to contribute to a new museology that radically challenges the conventional ways in which museums are constructed.
 The Free Software Definition states that free software contains the following freedoms articulated as an ethical instruction set. Since they are a set of contractual terms, they are set out as such:
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 Attempts have been made to transfer FLOSS principles to the making of objects in general. Often this has been done, as Fuller and Haque note in the case of architecture, on the basis of plans, recipes, diagrams and what they call other 'genotypic' information. Paraphrasing them, the key question here is if and how such strategies apply or can be modified to apply to the care of cultural heritage in museums.
-I have argued elsewhere that the material components of objects, along with their art historical and conservation documentation, combined with prevailing codes of ethics effected for museums, can be considered as an 'instruction manual' which might, in my current thinking here, be described in some sense as a "source code".
+I have argued [[http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=writing:practical_ethics_v.2.0|elsewhere]] that the material components of objects, along with their art historical and conservation documentation, combined with prevailing codes of ethics effected for museums, can be considered as an 'instruction manual' which might, in my current thinking here, be described in some sense as a "source code".
 Free software is engaged in a continuous process of production, implementation, usage and re-purposing processes. Cultural production can equally be opened out rather than continuously implemented in a closed manner. Such an approach changes the epistemic nature of museology to one being focussed on the production of open knowledge through its constant reprocessing, versioning and archiving..

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