Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practice Export

@article{citeulike:3757037, abstract = {This paper proposes a knowledge map management system to facilitate knowledge management in virtual communities of practice. To realize the proposed knowledge map management, we develop knowledge map creation and maintenance functions by utilizing information retrieval and data mining techniques. The knowledge maps created respectively from the documents of the teachers' professional community, SCTNet, and the thesis repository at Taiwan's National Central Library, are evaluated by experts of these two domains. Knowledge maps generated by the system are accepted by domain experts from the evaluation since the degree of their modification of the automatically created knowledge maps is proportionally small. The knowledge structure representing the categories of community documents maintains its high purity, diversity, specificity, and structure adaptation by using the knowledge map maintenance function with limited computational cost. Thus, the knowledge map creation and maintenance mechanisms developed in this research enable the dynamic knowledge management of communities of practice on the Internet.}, address = {Tarrytown, NY, USA}, author = {Lin, Fu R. and Hsueh, Chih M.}, citeulike-article-id = {3757037}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1120477}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.026}, doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.026}, issn = {0306-4573}, journal = {Inf. Process. Manage.}, keywords = {communities\_of\_practice, knowledge\_management, knowledge\_map}, number = {2}, pages = {551--568}, posted-at = {2009-04-28 15:05:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Pergamon Press, Inc.}, title = {Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practice}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.026}, volume = {42}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3757037 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3757037 N2 - This paper proposes a knowledge map management system to facilitate knowledge management in virtual communities of practice. To realize the proposed knowledge map management, we develop knowledge map creation and maintenance functions by utilizing information retrieval and data mining techniques. The knowledge maps created respectively from the documents of the teachers' professional community, SCTNet, and the thesis repository at Taiwan's National Central Library, are evaluated by experts of these two domains. Knowledge maps generated by the system are accepted by domain experts from the evaluation since the degree of their modification of the automatically created knowledge maps is proportionally small. The knowledge structure representing the categories of community documents maintains its high purity, diversity, specificity, and structure adaptation by using the knowledge map maintenance function with limited computational cost. Thus, the knowledge map creation and maintenance mechanisms developed in this research enable the dynamic knowledge management of communities of practice on the Internet. IS - 2 JF - Inf. Process. Manage. SN - 0306-4573 AD - Tarrytown, NY, USA EP - 568 TI - Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practice PB - Pergamon Press, Inc. VL - 42 SP - 551 KW - communities_of_practice KW - knowledge_management KW - knowledge_map AU - Lin, Fu AU - Hsueh, Chih PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.026 ER -