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<div>Although now a bit out of date, what I have meant by a Tragedy of
the Information Commons is described in an article from 1998
accessible at
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/%7eonsrud/pubs/tragedyabstract42.htm
Many similar (and better written) articles have emerged over the past
several years in the legal community. </div>
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<div>Some of the research challenges we believe that need to be
addressed in developing a more readily accessible and legally viable
public commons of geographic data and services is expressed in
the paper at
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/PubCommonsSNGL.pdf
Alternatively, look at Section 3 in Chapter 9 of<font color="#000000">
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11079.html</font></div>
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<div>Best, Harlan</div>
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<div>At 3:20 PM +0100 1/4/06, Bernhard Reiter wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Am 4. Jan 2006 um 08:30:07 schrieb
Allan Doyle:<br>
> On Jan 4, 2006, at 07:21, Bernhard Reiter wrote:<br>
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> > It translates nicely as common good, common land<br>
> > or commons as in "The tragedy of the Commons".<br>
> > This is why I believe the comparison is bad:<br>
> > With data that can be copied without loss, the tragedy is
missing.<br>
><br>
> Who needs tragedy?! The commons is the correct term. Even better
if <br>
> the data can be reused without tragedy.<br>
<br>
It is the right translation, but "Allmende" in German is
quite<br>
closely attached to the accompaining problem of its limits.<br>
So using it as comparison is not a good start into explaining the
concept.<br>
As far as I know the situation is similiar in English.<br>
<br>
> The idea of a geographic data commons has been around for a
little <br>
> while at least. You can see some initial materials here
http://<br>
> www.spatial.maine.edu/geodatacommons/<br>
<br>
Of course it has been,<br>
the whole "public domain" idea in the US has been there for
a while yet.<br>
And FreeGIS which also provides information about data coming with<br>
enough freedom has been founded end of 1999, which is quite a while
ago. :)<br>
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