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MP2 : Marco Prestipino
Title: Creating knowledge in virtual communities (ID MP2)
- Language: Englisch or German (may be decided by the plenum) | License: (CC) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0
- Room size: Small/medium
- Category: Education
- type: Presentation
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Author[s]: Marco Prestipino.
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Traditionally, online communities have been seen and analyzed mostly as a social phenomenon. Instead, we look at communities as a new kind of knowledge management system possessing several advantages over information products (books etc) or traditional information systems (databases). Our research in the area of online tourist communities indicates that they can deliver better information than commercial printed tourist guides. Virtual communities provide ressources for keeping a vast amount of knowledge up-to date for free and provide a social interface to information seekers. Typically, virtual communities on the web use discussion spaces. This technology has not changed much since its invention decades ago. Disadvantages of discussion spaces, like heterogenity and maintenance of information, are overcome by shared material, as realized by Wiki Wikis. But pure Wikis, while suitable for general, encyclopedic knowledge, lack personalization and communication support. Thus we argue for a hybrid approach,combining different tools and adding functionality to allow easy transition and flow of information between discussion spaces, personal spaces and knowledge base in the wiki. Experiences from several prototypes will be presented and discussed.
About the author[s]: Marco Prestipino, M.Sc.
Arbeitsgruppe Informationsmanagement Institut für Informatik Büro 27-K-22 Universität Zürich Winterthurer Strasse 190 8057 Zürich
Tel: ++41(0)1 63 56725 Natel: 079 371 50 35 email:Marco.Prestipino@ifi.unizh.ch http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/im
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- accept: EM (weakly, could give some inspiration to the devs), AB (accept as poster), JV (good to also have a look from outside Wikipedia)
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