The socio-technical design of a SME knowledge community in the construction industry

This paper presents the socio-technical design of a knowledge community which is part of a system to support an industrial association based collaborative network in the sector of construction industry. There are many explanations around the virtual community concept. Here is presented a fundamental...

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Autor principal: Simões, Dora (author)
Outros Autores: Soares, António Lucas (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 1000
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/9373
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/9373
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Resumo:This paper presents the socio-technical design of a knowledge community which is part of a system to support an industrial association based collaborative network in the sector of construction industry. There are many explanations around the virtual community concept. Here is presented a fundamental phase of the Know-Construct project which involved the design of the Construction Industry Knowledge (CIK) Community using three analytical approaches. The generic architecture of the supporting system (Knowledge Community Support - KCS) is described, highlighting information and knowledge management, community building facilities and semantic resources management.