Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615208410 ISBN 13: 9781615208418

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2010

Synopsis

Since the dawn of the 21st Century the invention of Web 2.0 has enabled people from all backgrounds to contribute content on the Internet. In doing so, the Internet has become more of a social platform, thus establishing a growing need for innovative social software and the organization of collaborative interest communities. Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest: Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge from experts within the Information and Knowledge Management field. Outlining various concepts from an application and technical stand point and providing insight on the various dimensions (sociological, psychological, technical, etc.) of social Internet collaboration. This book provides solutions to the detection of interest communities, as well as the study of how tools and knowledge sharing impact the environment where they are used.

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Review

Collaborative Search and Community Interest addresses various issues of communities of interest. [...] The intention is to build a bridge between different research communities and to initiate fruitful discussions, and I think the contributors have succeeded very well in this. [...] Collaborative Search and Community Interest is recommended to researchers in information behaviour, collaborative information seeking and knowledge management, and especially those interested in detecting communities of interest. --Ina Fourie, University of Pretoria, Online Information Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615208410
• ISBN 13: 9781615208418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299
• Editor: Francq Pascal