An Introduction to the Digital Commons: From Common-Pool Resources to Community Governance

Use the link to access the full text article deposited in the open access repository HAL (Hyper Article On Line -- Humanities and Social Sciences).  The paper will be presented at the International Association for the Study of the Commons:1st Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons -- 2012.  The abstract reads as follows: "This article  proposes  an introductory analysis of digital resources and commons-based peer production online communities with the framework of the common pool-resources. Trying to go beyond the classic economy dichotomy between physical resources scarcity and informational resources reproducibility, the approach allows to focus not only on the nature of the resources, 

but mostly on the governance by the communities to produce resources which remain available 

for all to share and build upon, while avoiding risks of pollution, degradation, underuse or 

enclosure by the market."