The future of professional communities of practice

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Abstract

Thirty four professionals who are part of a community of practice in the field of health related emergency response management provided information about the sources of information that they currently use the most, as well as their unmet information needs, and the kinds of information systems tools they would like to have. This professional community relies heavily on the Web, but they report severe information overload, in terms of not easily being able to find the kinds of information they want, amid the deluge of information that is there. In particular, they would find a system that uses social tagging and social recommender system features to be very useful for accessing relevant documents in the "gray literature." We suggest that services such as these will be increasingly important for professional communities in general. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Identifier

70349547067 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9783642012556]

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01256-3_13

ISSN

18651348

First Page

144

Last Page

158

Volume

22 LNBIP

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