Exploring digital content ecosystems

Abstract

For countries that have invested heavily in digital infrastructure (especially Lithuania), the challenge is to fill this infrastructure with content. In leading countries, digital content ecosystems have been developing very rapidly for at least two decades and have become a driver of economic development and exports. Traditional content ecosystems based on intellectual property and collective management no longer work in the digital space. In digital content ecosystems, the content, the actors and the ways in which value is created are changing. Completely new forms of digital content (e.g. based on smart devices, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, etc.) are emerging rapidly. The ecosystem of digital content is the focus of this study - an interacting community of stakeholders who generate and dispose of digital content. Digital content is the set of information, products, services and their interactions in cyberspace, the result of creative and technological development processes. Digital content ecosystems have so far not been studied as an independent subject, but as a collection of different, even unrelated, topics. The aim of this project is to identify, assess and analyse the elements of digital content ecosystems (content, actors, interactions), and on the basis of this analysis to develop a digital content map, an ecosystem ontology and a connecting ecosystem model.