Informational ecosystems relate to a network of connected servers or services on the internet that
conjointly or cooperatively establish an environment for finding and providing informational
resources to a larger public. This includes functions for the delivery of content and all related,
more or less complex, functions of a value chain, like generating, editing, assembling, annotating,
tagging, commenting or linking information resources. In such an ecosystem, several providers
are linked to each other; their collaboration relies on standards to interface content and metadata.
Open informational ecosystems allow for any provider of contents to “plug into” the ecosystem by
providing meta-data that can be retrieved from a reference platform (also called “referatory”).
Closed informational ecosystems aim at restricting access to contents and meta-data within the
boundaries of an ecosystem and locking users within these boundaries. Such a system can consist
of a one-stop solution that combines all the described functions. But it can also be a network of
confederated servers that jointly keep the boundaries of the system close.
In general, all informational ecosystems imply mechanisms for opening and closing. This
essentially has to do with the dual nature of knowledge and information: The perspective of
information economy is viewing information as a somewhat tangible asset that can be monetized
– if access to the information can be restricted. The perspective of information ecology, on the
other hand, is viewing information as a good that gains value by diffusion and by increasing
access (Kuhlen, 2012).
Informational ecosystems relate to a network of connected servers or services on the internet that conjointly or cooperatively establish an environment for finding and providing informational resources to a larger public. This includes functions for the delivery of content and all related, more or less complex, functions of a value chain, like generating, editing, assembling, annotating, tagging, commenting or linking information resources. In such an ecosystem, several providers are linked to each other; their collaboration relies on standards to interface content and metadata. Open informational ecosystems allow for any provider of contents to “plug into” the ecosystem by providing meta-data that can be retrieved from a reference platform (also called “referatory”). Closed informational ecosystems aim at restricting access to contents and meta-data within the boundaries of an ecosystem and locking users within these boundaries. Such a system can consist of a one-stop solution that combines all the described functions. But it can also be a network of confederated servers that jointly keep the boundaries of the system close. In general, all informational ecosystems imply mechanisms for opening and closing. This essentially has to do with the dual nature of knowledge and information: The perspective of information economy is viewing information as a somewhat tangible asset that can be monetized – if access to the information can be restricted. The perspective of information ecology, on the
other hand, is viewing information as a good that gains value by diffusion and by increasing
access (Kuhlen, 2012).
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