Understanding Knowledge as a Commons : From Theory to Practice

Charlotte Hess

ISBN 10: 0262516039 / ISBN 13: 9780262516037

Verlag: MIT Press, 2011

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons¿as a shared resource¿allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780262516037

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons : From Theory to Practice
• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0262516039
• ISBN-13: 9780262516037
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.