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Title:
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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SHARING IN OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES |
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Author(s):
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S. L. Toral , F. Barrero , M. R. MartÃnez-torres |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-82-9 |
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Editors:
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Gunilla Bradley and Piet Kommers |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Virtual communities, open source, knowledge creation, latent semantic analysis, social learning |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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75 |
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Last Page:
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83 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Open Source Communities are typically supported by hundreds o even thousands of developers and users geographically
spread all over the world. Participants get in contact using electronic media like CVS, mailing lists and forums in which
they can post source code, bugs, problems, doubts or experiences and receive answers, solutions or alternative from other
community users. This scheme leads to a structure in which learning takes place as a social process associated to practice
and knowledge is captured in the form of code or discussions. This aim of this paper consists of analyzing the stored
information to observe the knowledge creation process and its evolution using a case study. Latent semantic analysis
techniques will be applied for this purpose. The obtained results will provide new insights about knowledge management
in virtual communities. |
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