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    <p class="headline"><strong>Structured Commons</strong> is an alternate model for scholars to
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<h2>What are the Structured&nbsp;Commons?</h2>
<p>The Structured Commons consist of a <em>model</em> for scholars to publish
and interact with scientific work and a <em>network</em> of documents and
digital objects structured and connected to each other using
Structured Commons&nbsp;mechanisms.</p>
<p>The <em>Structured Commons model</em> consists of <strong>standards</strong>, <strong>methods</strong>
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<li>compute citable <strong>fingerprints</strong> for documents and digital&nbsp;objects;</li>
<li>generate and verify <strong>certificates of existence</strong>;</li>
<li>structure, and produce download links to <strong>durable archives</strong> of documents and&nbsp;collections;</li>
<li>organize, validate and reward <strong>peer review</strong> between&nbsp;scholars;</li>
<li>mine, index and query  <strong>document metadata</strong>&nbsp;automatically.</li>
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<li><strong>independent</strong>: content is stored, indexed and distributed across the
Internet, without requiring a single host organization or
repository to support its existence in the long&nbsp;term.</li>
<li><strong>incorruptible</strong>: citations and links use fingerprints that &quot;digitally signs&quot; all documents; any
post-publication alteration invalidate existing&nbsp;fingerprints.</li>
<li><strong>irrefutable</strong>: certificates of existence guarantee a document
existed not later than a specific date, and multiple certificates
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