Medieval guild as metaphor to a knowledge sharing community

Authors:
Carlos J. Costa
Affiliations:
ISCTE -- University Institute of Lisbon, Adetti - IUL, Lisboa, Portugal
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The problem of community creation and management is an important issue in the context of open source and creative commons online communities. In this paper we explore the concept of medieval guild. In this paper we present the guild metaphor as a solution to sharing knowledge in an online community.