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An ontology for supporting communities of practice

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Rose Dieng-Kuntz,

Christina Christina,

Géraldine VidouAuthors Info & Claims

K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture

Pages 39 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/1298406.1298415

Published: 28 October 2007 Publication History

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In the context of the Palette project aimed at enhancingallindividual and organizational learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs), we are developing Knowledge Management (KM) services. Our approach is based on an ontology dedicated to CoPs and built from analysis of information sources about eleven CoPs available in Palette project. This ontology aims both at modeling the members of the CoP and at annotating the CoP knowledge resources. The paper describes our method for building this ontology, its structure and contents and it analyses our experience feedback from the cooperative building of this ontology.

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An ontology for supporting communities of practice
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture

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DOI:10.1145/1298406

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