Communications of the ACM
Online knowledge communities: future trends and research issues
International Journal of Web Based Communities
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
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This paper presents a case in the development of a knowledge community support system in the context of an industrial association group in the construction sector This system is a result of the Know-Construct project which aims at providing association sponsored SME communities of the construction sector with a sophisticated information management platform and community building tools for knowledge sharing The paper begins by characterizing the so-called construction industry knowledge community The Know-Construct system concept and the its general architecture are described, focusing on the semantic resources, in particular the ontologies structure The final part of the paper depicts the approach to the actual introduction of the system in the community An action-research approach was planned to obtain research results regarding the social acceptance of semantic resources such as the ontologies and technical classifications used in system.