Abstract
An electronic community system encodes and manipulates the range of knowledge and values necessary to function effectively in a community or organization. The knowledge includes both formal data and literature and informal results and news. The manipulation includes both browsing through the available knowledge, and recording and sharing interrelationships between the items. A large-scale experiment is underway to build an electronic community system for the community of scientists studying the nematode worm C. elegans, a model organism in molecular biology. This paper discusses a model for community systems and previous such systems in science, the biology experiment and a previous system, the enabling technology for handling the knowledge, the enabling mechanisms for handling the values, the state of the prototype, and speculations on future applications in supporting organizational memory.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 87-107 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Management Information Systems |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Electronic communities
- Electronic community systems
- Information spaces
- Organizational memory
- Scientific applications
- Telesophy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Information Systems and Management