Public and Distributed Scholarship in an Age of Wires and Empires David Silver Assistant Professor University of Washington In 1996, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, a not-for-profit online center devoted to mapping the then-emerging academic field of digital culture, was established. This presentation will include a history of the Center and a discussion of barriers to collective knowledge, including discipline-based scholarship, geographically-based publication, and the limits of print. The briefing will conclude with a few modest solutions to these problems, and some notes regarding the role of public and distributed scholarship in the Age of Empire. http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs