This book draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs and presents their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practica view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case...

"This book showcases cutting-edge research on the intersections of Semantic Web, collaborative work, and social media research, exploring how the resources of so-called social networking applications, which bring people together to interact and encourage sharing of personal information and...

"This book addresses the various systems in place for collaborative e-research and how these practices serve to enhance the quality of research across disciplines, covering new networks available through social media as well as traditional methods such as mailing lists and forums"--Provided by...

The importance of semantics has been recognized in different areas of data and information management, including better access, exchange, interoperability, integration, and analysis of data. Semantics of data is about associating meaning to data, understanding what data represents, and improving...

1. A Communities of practice approach to management knowledge dissemination / Joanne Roberts -- 2. Sharing knowledge through communities of practice / Eduardo Campos, Carlos Moreno, Reinaldo Landaeta -- 3. Communities of practice as work teams to knowledge management / Celia Zárraga-Oberty --...

A Knowledge Strategy Oriented Framework for Classifying Knowledge Management Tools / Gianluca Elia -- Social Software for Bottom-Up Knowledge Networking and Community Building / Mohamed Amine Chatti -- Weaving a Knowledge Web with Wikis / Kevin R. Parker, Joseph T. Chao -- Media Centric...

"This book offers academians and practitioners an illustration of the importance of tacit knowledge to an organization, presenting a means to measure and track tacit knowledge in individuals and recommendations on firm attributes and their ideal utilization of the tacit knowledge...

"In today's networked societies, a key factor of the social and economic success is the capability to exchange, transfer, and share knowledge. This book provides research on the topic providing a foundation of an emerging and multidisciplinary field"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines -- striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability...

"This book seeks to fill the knowledge gap surrounding Communities of Practice and their role within developing nations, focusing on critical topics related to different types of knowledge communities and the ways in which such communities generate innovation"--Provided by publisher