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Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this paper we set out ONTOCOPI, a system that applies ontology-based network analysis techniques to target the problem of identifying such communities.
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O’Hara, K., Alani, H., Shadbolt, N. (2002). Identifying Communities of Practice. In: Traunmüller, R. (eds) Information Systems. IFIP WCC TC8 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 95. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35604-4_7
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