Toward Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution

This paper puts forth a vision and an architecture for a community knowledge evolution system. We propose augmenting a multimedia document repository (digital library) with innovative knowledge evolution support, including computer-mediated communications, community process support, decision support...

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Published inJournal of management information systems Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 11 - 35
Main Authors Bieber, Michael, Engelbart, Douglas, Furuta, Richard, Hiltz, Starr Roxanne, Noll, John, Preece, Jennifer, Stohr, Edward A., Turoff, Murray, Van De Walle, Bartel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.03.2002
M. E. Sharpe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Communities
Community
Community structure
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION CONCEPT MAPS CONEY WORDS AND PHRASES CEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES DECISION ANALYSIS DIGITAL LIBRARIES HYPERMEDIA HYPERTEXT KNOWLEDGE EVOLUTION PROCESS MODELING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES WORKFLOW
Decision analysis
Digital libraries
Hyperlinks
Information storage and retrieval systems
Knowledge
Multimedia materials
Professional associations
Social evolution
Studies
Virtual communities
Virtual networks
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Summary:This paper puts forth a vision and an architecture for a community knowledge evolution system. We propose augmenting a multimedia document repository (digital library) with innovative knowledge evolution support, including computer-mediated communications, community process support, decision support, advanced hypermedia features, and conceptual knowledge structures. These tools, and the techniques developed around them, would enable members of a virtual community to learn from, contribute to, and collectively build upon the community's knowledge and improve many member tasks. The resulting Collaborative Knowledge Evolution Support System (CKESS) would provide an enhanced digital library infrastructure serving as an ever-evolving repository of the community's knowledge, which members would actively use in everyday tasks and regularly update.
ISSN:0742-1222
1557-928X
DOI:10.1080/07421222.2002.11045707