Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262083574 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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The essays clarify critical issues that arise within these new types of commons--and offer guideposts for future theory and practice.Contributors:David Bollier, James Boyle, James C. Todd Swarthout, Donald Waters. Cox, Shubha Ghosh, Charlotte Hess, Nancy Kranich, Peter Levine, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Schweik, Peter Suber, J. They look at ways to guard against enclosure of the knowledge commons, considering, among other topics, the role of research libraries, the advantages of making scholarly material available outside the academy, and the problem of disappearing Web pages. In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era--how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it.Contributors consider the concept of the commons historically and offer an analytical framework for understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological system. Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. They discuss the role of intellectual property in a new knowledge commons, the open access movement (including possible funding models for scholarly publications), the development of associational commons, the application of a free/open source framework to scientific knowledge, and the effect on scholarly communicat
Bentley Professor of Political Science, Codirector of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, and Codirector of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University.Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. About the Author Charlotte Hess is Director of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University.Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F.
Bentley Professor of Political Science, Codirector of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, and Codirector of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University.Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Charlotte Hess is Director of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University.Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F.
"Almost a Three--Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus" according to Robert David STEELE Vivas. An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-200Almost a Three--Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus Robert David STEELE Vivas An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the "inter-disciplinary" work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in not scoring it as a three. Despite references to Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, these folks are largely out of touch with Web 2.0 to Web 4.0, col. timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the "inter-disciplinary" work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in not scoring it as a three. Despite references to Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, these folks are largely out of touch with Web 2.0 to Web Almost a Three--Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus Robert David STEELE Vivas An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the "inter-disciplinary" work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in not scoring it as a three. Despite references to Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, these folks are largely out of touch with Web 2.0 to Web 4.0, col. .0, col. James A. Gano said Knowledge Commons. Great set of articles for anybody researching theory of the commons as it pertains to knowledge (e.g. academic research, intellectual property rights, open-source software).. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons This book is excelent to understand our context where knowledge and information can be used by a community of users to get a common goal. The approach is compared with other "commons" as natural resources and environment.