Knowledge sharing in communities has attracted much attention in the field of knowledge management in research and practice. In this paper we outline a view where the community lifecycle is supported at different stages. The central component of our framework is the community ontology SWRC+COIN that describes the typical structure of communities. We exemplarily show how communities in the academic domain can be detected automatically by means of analyzing information flow in a bibliographic Peer-to-Peer system and how the instantiated community knowledge base can be exploited to support cooperative work in the communities.

Authors: Stephan Bloehdorn, Peter Haase, Mark Hefke, York Sure, Christoph Tempich
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Categories: H.3.3, H.5.3, i-KNOW 2005
Tags: communities of practice, knowledge management, metadata, ontologies, Peer-To-Peer, Semantic Portals