Communities of Practice and Semantic Web Stimulating Collaboration by Document Markup

SOMWeb: A Semantic Web-Based System for Supporting Collaboration of Distributed Medical Communities of Practice

Journal of Medical Internet Research ◽

10.2196/jmir.1059 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. e25 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Göran Falkman ◽

Marie Gustafsson ◽

Mats Jontell ◽

Olof Torgersson

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Communities Of Practice ◽

Web Based ◽

Web Based System

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The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as an Essential Social Dimension of the Semantic Web

Social Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch124 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1882-1905

Author(s):

Kam Hou Vat

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Communities Of Practice ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Appreciative Inquiry ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Knowledge Work ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Virtual Collaboration ◽

Appreciative Processes ◽

Virtual Communities Of Practice

The mission of this chapter is to present a framework of ideas concerning the expected form of knowledge sharing over the emerging Semantic Web. Of specific interest is the perspective of appreciative inquiry, which should accommodate the creation of some appreciative knowledge environments (AKE) based on the peculiar organizational concerns that would encourage or better institutionalize knowledge work among people of interest in an organization. The AKE idea is extensible to the building of virtual communities of practice (CoP) whose meta-data requirements have been so much facilitated in today’s Web technologies including the ideas of data ownership, software as services, and the socialization and co-creation of content, and it is increasingly visible that the AKE model of knowledge sharing is compatible for the need of virtual collaboration in today’s knowledge-centric organizations. The author’s investigation should provide a basis to think about the social dimension of today’s Semantic Web, in view of the generative potential of various appreciative processes of knowledge sharing among communities of practice distributed throughout an organization.

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The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as an Essential Social Dimension of the Semantic Web

Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-650-1.ch021 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 411-434

Author(s):

Kam Hou Vat

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Communities Of Practice ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Appreciative Inquiry ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Knowledge Work ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Virtual Collaboration ◽

Appreciative Processes ◽

Virtual Communities Of Practice

The mission of this chapter is to present a framework of ideas concerning the expected form of knowledge sharing over the emerging Semantic Web. Of specific interest is the perspective of appreciative inquiry, which should accommodate the creation of some appreciative knowledge environments (AKE) based on the peculiar organizational concerns that would encourage or better institutionalize knowledge work among people of interest in an organization. The AKE idea is extensible to the building of virtual communities of practice (CoP) whose meta-data requirements have been so much facilitated in today’s Web technologies including the ideas of data ownership, software as services, and the socialization and co-creation of content, and it is increasingly visible that the AKE model of knowledge sharing is compatible for the need of virtual collaboration in today’s knowledge-centric organizations. The author’s investigation should provide a basis to think about the social dimension of today’s Semantic Web, in view of the generative potential of various appreciative processes of knowledge sharing among communities of practice distributed throughout an organization.

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The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as an Essential Social Dimension of the Semantic Web

Virtual Communities ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-100-3.ch215 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 605-628

Author(s):

Kam Hou Vat

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Communities Of Practice ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Appreciative Inquiry ◽

Virtual Communities ◽

Knowledge Work ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Virtual Collaboration ◽

Appreciative Processes ◽

Virtual Communities Of Practice

The mission of this chapter is to present a framework of ideas concerning the expected form of knowledge sharing over the emerging Semantic Web. Of specific interest is the perspective of appreciative inquiry, which should accommodate the creation of some appreciative knowledge environments (AKE) based on the peculiar organizational concerns that would encourage or better institutionalize knowledge work among people of interest in an organization. The AKE idea is extensible to the building of virtual communities of practice (CoP) whose meta-data requirements have been so much facilitated in today’s Web technologies including the ideas of data ownership, software as services, and the socialization and co-creation of content, and it is increasingly visible that the AKE model of knowledge sharing is compatible for the need of virtual collaboration in today’s knowledge-centric organizations. The author’s investigation should provide a basis to think about the social dimension of today’s Semantic Web, in view of the generative potential of various appreciative processes of knowledge sharing among communities of practice distributed throughout an organization.

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