Building an Electronic Community System.

Author List: Schatz, Bruce R.;
Journal of Management Information Systems, 1991, Volume 8, Issue 3, Page 87-107.
An electronic community system encodes and manipulates the range of knowledge and values necessary to function effectively in a community or organization. The knowledge includes both formal data and literature and informal results and news. The manipulation includes both browsing through the available knowledge, and recording and sharing interrelationships between the items. A large-scale experiment is underway to build an electronic community system for the community of scientists studying the nematode worm C. elegans, a model organism in molecular biology. This paper discusses a model for community systems and previous such systems in science, the biology experiment and a previous system, the enabling technology for handling the knowledge, the enabling mechanisms for handling the values, the state of the prototype, and speculations on future applications in supporting organizational memory.
Keywords: Electronic community systems; Information spaces; Organizational Memory; Scientific applications; Telesophy
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#245 0.170 knowledge sharing contribution practice electronic expertise individuals repositories management technical repository knowledge-sharing shared contributors novelty features peripheral share benefit seekers
#154 0.167 memory support organizations information organizational requirements different complex require development provides resources organization paper transactive depth process outside difficult breadth
#250 0.129 enterprise improvement organizations process applications metaphors packaged technology organization help knows extends improved overcoming package learning better evolution build lead
#45 0.128 community communities online members participants wikipedia social member knowledge content discussion collaboration attachment communication law virtual membership structures forms activities
#240 0.124 systems information management development presented function article discussed model personnel general organization described presents finally computer-based role examined functional components
#293 0.062 values culture relationship paper proposes mixed responsiveness revealed specific considers deployment results fragmentation simultaneously challenges explain attribute building indicated obtain