Although our research is about reuse, nonetheless we should keep the notion of sharing at the back of our minds, as there seems to be a close link between the former and the latter in several aspects (for more about this, see our mindmap).

Reading this, I'm minded to ask whether our tendency to say 'reuse' in the context of initiatives like UK OER is semantically significant - or do we just mean 'use'? Often we actually say 'use/reuse' (as in the diagram attached to this blog post - but I know that I do this myself as well) so it seems like we mean something different. But I'm not sure.

Is reuse just a use that isn't what the original creator of the resource intended? Or is there, in fact, no difference between 'use' and 'reuse'?