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The Internet has not only enabled worldwide access to heterogeneous information sources such as web pages or traditional database contents, but also increasingly serves as a medium for multimedia information and opinion exchange. Community Information Systems address the combination of these two trends of heterogeneous worldwide information access and cooperative discussion and work. This combination creates a lot of new opportunities e.g. in the educational and cultural sector, but entails also serious risks and socio-political problems. New technical solutions are required for problems such as share definition of IS structure in such communities, high variability and strong guidance in user interfaces, security and trust management. In particular, this requires a schema organization that can adapt itself gradually, yet in a controlled manner, i.e. has the property of being reflexive. This paper gives an overview of interdisciplinary research in community information systems, and presents the ATLAS architecture developed at RWTH Aachen University. A number of real-world applications, including a major reconstruction effort for a cultural heritage research community in Afghanistan, illustrate the approach.
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Jarke, M., Klamma, R. (2008). Reflective Community Information Systems. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Filipe, J., Constantopoulos, P., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2006. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77581-2_2
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