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pith:Y2OSLP3K

pith:2026:Y2OSLP3K24FXQNQMUZHAZTT7EG

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Thinking like a business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructures

Dorothea Strecker, Kathleen Gregory

Open data infrastructures sustain themselves by reconfiguring relationships with customers, collaborators, and competitors while adopting new fee structures.

arxiv:2604.27580 v3 · 2026-04-30 · cs.DL

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C1strongest claim

We identify four types of relationship reconfigurations with customers, collaborators, and competitors critical to Dryad's financial evolution: reinforcing, forging, positioning, and excluding.

C2weakest assumption

That Dryad's specific reconfigurations and interpretive shifts around its new fee structure represent generalizable mechanisms that other open data infrastructures can adopt to achieve sustainability.

C3one line summary

Dryad sustained itself financially by reconfiguring relationships into reinforcing, forging, positioning, and excluding types while adopting a fee structure that altered its interpretations of value, community, and governance.

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First computed	2026-05-25T02:01:21.359958Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c69d25bf6ad70b78360ca64e0cce7f219e7ee11f83392a078063cc04a47cb09f

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.27580 · arxiv_version: 2604.27580v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.27580 · pith_short_12: Y2OSLP3K24FX · pith_short_16: Y2OSLP3K24FXQNQM · pith_short_8: Y2OSLP3K

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y2OSLP3K24FXQNQMUZHAZTT7EG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c69d25bf6ad70b78360ca64e0cce7f219e7ee11f83392a078063cc04a47cb09f

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