You have to read to the bottom of the article to find out that the sixth R is "Request update." Chris Aldrich writes, "OER is an incredibly powerful concept already, but could be even more so with the ability to push new updates or at least notifications of them back to the original." It's worth noting that systems like Wikipedia and GitHub have both enabled this feature, and it makes them more valuable. As it stands, however, "keeping them updated with potential changes can potentially be a difficult proposition. It may not always be the case that resources are maintained on a single platform." That said, there may be "a means of leveraging the W3C recommended specification for Webmention as a means of keeping a tally of changes to resources online."
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