WSEAS Transactions on Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-2777, E-ISSN: 2224-2678
Volume 11, 2012
Collaborative Knowledge Management
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Abstract: The globalization, the explosive development of the Internet and other communication systems generated a high dynamic and a new kind of society. Two of the main characteristics of this society are the collaboration and the knowledge management. These characteristics form a binomial relation, that means, collaboration cannot be realized without knowledge and vice versa, the knowledge in the new global society cannot be obtained without collaboration. The problem is so complex, because generally, in the collaborative systems, the knowledge is heterogeneous and the Knowledge Management System (KMS) needs to translate a large variety of tacit knowledge, the knowledge that can be acquired by experience and communication [15], in explicit knowledge, the knowledge included in documents or books [15], and reversely. Consequently, a new field named Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKMS) has emerged. In this paper, the authors try to present some aspects of KMS. Some authors underline [6] that the body of literature in this field is ambiguous, normative and often conceptual. As such, in our note, the general results will be applied in an empirical case study based on a project developed by the authors. The project focuses on the economic education in Romanian high schools. It will be treated as a two-phase CKMS, that means, that in the first phase, the CKMS of a Virtual Organization (VO) is built and in the second phase, this construction will be transformed in a virtual community which will function as a Social Network (SN).