Identifying Communities of Practice: Analysing Ontologies as Networks to Support Community Recognition


O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith and Shadbolt, Nigel (2002) Identifying Communities of Practice: Analysing Ontologies as Networks to Support Community Recognition. In, In Proceedings IFIP World Computer Congress. Information Systems: The E-Business Challenge., Montreal, Canada, Kluwer.

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Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this paper we set out ONTOCOPI, a system that applies ontology-based network analysis techniques to target the problem of identifying such communities.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science
Item ID: 256522
Date Deposited: 25 Apr 2002
Last Modified: 02 Mar 2012 04:19
Contributors: O'Hara, Kieron (Author)
Alani, Harith (Author)
Shadbolt, Nigel (Author)
Date: August 2002
Status: Published
Publisher: Kluwer
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256522

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