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

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

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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 network analysis techniques to an ontology to target the problem of identifying such communities.

Subjects:AKT Challenges > Knowledge retrieval
ID Code:14
Deposited By:Alani, Harith
Deposited On:15 February 2002

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