![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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