A Tool to Study the Evolution of the Domain of a Distributed Community of Practice

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Author(s): Gilson Yukio Sato (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil), Hilton José Silva de Azevedo (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil)and Jean-Paul A. Barthès (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 13
Source title: Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ben Kei Daniel (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-040-2.ch010

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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Virtual communities and distributed communities of practice leave traces of their activities that are a valuable source of research material. At the same time, studying this kind of community requires new methods, techniques and tools. In this chapter, we present the Community Agent: a tool to follow the evolution of the domain of a distributed Community of Practice. Such a tool aims at obtaining and presenting graphically some indicators to study the evolution of the domain of a Community of Practice and the participation of its members. We present the implementation of the Community Agent, the results obtained in the preliminary tests and an example of how the agent could be used to study distributed communities.

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