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WSKS 2009: Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective pp 228–237Cite as

Open Source Resources and Web 2.0 Potentialities for a New Democratic Approach in Programming Practices

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This paper reports about an experience concerning the implementation of a WEBGIS, a BLOG and an ontology. WEBGIS and BLOG allow to promote a spread of spatial data knowledge, to consult planning documents in the Internet, increasing transparency level of programming choices and involving different stakeholders participation. The ontology is intended as an in progress powerful tool, increasing knowledge rationality. Ontologies can help the community by defining and explicating a shared language and strengthening the efficacy of direct interactions. The case study has been applied to Marmo Platano–Melandro PIT (Territorial Integrated Projects), an area with high potentialities in the North-Western part of Basilicata Region (Italy), responsible for the accomplishment of POR (Regional Operative Program) Basilicata 2000-2006 and for the elaboration of a common and shared strategy to manage an integrated program of interventions for local development.

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  1. Laboratory of Urban and Territorial Systems, University of Basilicata, Via dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Lucia Tilio, Viviana Lanza, Francesco Scorza & Beniamino Murgante

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  1. Open Research Society, NGO, and American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Dipartemento Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  3. College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    John M. Carroll

  4. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  5. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

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  6. KMR group at NADA/KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Lindstedtsv. 5, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

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  7. Creatifica Associates, Chelveston, Wellingborough, UK

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  8. University of Tampere, Finland

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  9. School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Private Bag 92006, 1020, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix Tan

  10. School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  11. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Tilio, L., Lanza, V., Scorza, F., Murgante, B. (2009). Open Source Resources and Web 2.0 Potentialities for a New Democratic Approach in Programming Practices. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective. WSKS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5736. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_24

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