Tag Archives: Community of Practice

Virtual Campfire – A Mobile Social Software for Cross-Media Communities

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Multimedia creation, annotation and sharing are challenging tasks especially of interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational communities. We present the mobile social software Virtual Campfire to provide cross-media and cross-community support for de- and recontextualization of multimedia content, employing Web Services, the MPEG-7 standard and Web 2.0 technologies etc. Virtual Campfire can enable communities to set up and maintain multimedia community information systems quickly and easily.

O’Cop, an Ontology Dedicated to Communities of Practice

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The Palette project dedicated to lerning in Communities of Practice (CoPs) aims to offer several services for communities of practice, in particular Knowledge Management (KM) services based on an ontology dedicated to CoPs, the so-called O’CoP. Built from information sources about the Palette CoPs, O’CoP aims both at modelling the members of the CoP and at annotating the CoP’s knowledge resources. The paper describes the structure of O’CoP, its main concepts and relations, and it reports some lessons learnt from the cooperative community building of this ontology.

Organic Perspectives of Knowledge Management

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Our research on knowledge management is rooted in the community perspective. We believe that knowledge systems should serve primarily to help people create and share new knowledge. But we also acknowledge the role of stable, structured and reliable information, both as a component of our systems and as a component of the organizations within which we work. The contribution of the paper is a framework for integrating organization and community perspectives on knowledge management and its computational support.