Analysis of knowledge creation, aggregation and sharing processes within communities of practice

Mihindu, SA; Fernando, T

Abstract

Knowledge Management (KM) has been a widely received area for research and development for many decades. However combining the full Knowledge Management Cycle; knowledge capture, development, sharing and utilisation within the same infrastructure has not been successfully researched and a suitable remedy all-in-one application for virtual communities or Communities of Practice (CoP) has not been established. This article proposes models for knowledge analysis, knowledge processing, codifying and reuse, and finally elaborates on a research prototype that is being used for large virtual community (INTUITION EU Network*) settings for gathering knowledge management requirements of such environment. Further research works are also discussed in application of KM infrastructures and Virtual Machine architectures within future workspaces.

• Publication Date: Jun 25, 2007
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2010
• Pages: 3-10
• Book Title: WorldComp2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
• ISBN: 1601320507
• Publisher URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws
• Related Public URLs: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/IKE07