Collaboration patterns in an online community of practice in oral medicine.
SOMWeb is an online collaboration system based on Semantic Web technologies, which is used for knowledge sharing and dissemination within an oral medicine community in Sweden. Based on a previous study of the use of SOMWeb, general patterns of interaction and communicative activities involved in community collaboration have been identified. The patterns for one such activity, distance consultation, are described and modeled using techniques from the Pragmatic Web. It is also shown how patterns could inform system design.
Falkman
Göran
G
School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden. goran.falkman@his.se
Gustafsson
Marie
M
Torgersson
Olof
O
Jontell
Mats
M
D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D019242:Oral Medicine; D013548:Sweden; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D013685:Telecommunications