NDLI: Following the evolution of distributed Communities of Practice

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sato, G.Y. Barthes, J.-P. Ke-Jia Chen
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: CNRS UMR 6599, Univ. de Technol. de Compiogne, Heudiasyc (Sato, G.Y.; Barthes, J.-P.; Ke-Jia Chen)
Abstract	Symbiotic computing leads to a proliferation of computing devices that in turn allow linking people, favouring the development of Communities of Practice (CoPs). The notion of Communities of Practice is newer than the social organization it describes, but the emergence of technologies based on the Internet like emails, forums, blogs, wikis, conference calls, video-conference facilitated the creation of a new kind of CoP: the distributed CoP. Distributed CoPs are CoPs whose members being dispersed geographically have to rely strongly on technological means to interact. Distributed CoPs face new issues due to the distance among members, the size of the community and the cultural differences. In this context, coordinating distributed CoPs is even more challenging than coordinating their collocated counterparts. Things that happen rather spontaneously in a collocated community must be instigated in a distributed one, overloading the coordination of distributed CoPs. The increasing role of the coordination should be supported by an adequate set of coordination tools. In this paper we present a tool that aims at supporting the coordination of distributed CoPs. This tool lets the coordination follow the evolution of the community. It analyzes the exchanges among members and shows this information in a graphical format in order to help the coordination to follow the evolution of the participation and the domain of the community.
Starting Page	267
Ending Page	276
File Size	912332
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424425389
DOI	10.1109/COGINF.2008.4639178
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-08-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	tools for community coordination Communities of Practice Distributed Communities of Practice Multi-Agent Systems Agents
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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