Editorial Standards
How content arrives on Knowledge Commons, who is responsible for it, and how corrections work.
1. We are an aggregator, not a publisher
Knowledge Commons is a curated aggregator. We surface content that participating organisations have explicitly opted in to share. Each organisation remains the editorial publisher and rights-holder of its own content; we do not author or edit it.
2. How content is curated
- Participating organisations apply (or are invited) and sign a contribution agreement that commits them to honest attribution, lawful content, and license clarity.
- Each contributor chooses, per item, which content is published to Knowledge Commons and under which license (see the License block on every detail page).
- We may decline or remove content that violates the Acceptable Use Policy.
3. Editorial independence
We do not accept payment for editorial placement. Content is not ranked by financial sponsorship. Where an organisation has supported Knowledge Commons financially, that relationship is disclosed on their organisation page.
4. AI-assisted features
We use AI for transcription, translation, semantic search, and the public assistant. Where AI produces text shown to users (e.g. assistant responses), responses are clearly labelled as AI-generated and every response is grounded in cited source material. AI does not author published Commons content.
5. Corrections and errata
If you spot a factual error in published content, please contact the contributing organisation directly (their contact details are on their organisation page) or report it to editorial@knowledge-commons.example and we will route it appropriately.
Material corrections to substantive published content are noted on the content page itself.
6. Takedowns
Copyright complaints follow the procedure at /dmca. Other content-removal requests can be sent to abuse@knowledge-commons.example.