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This paper focuses on representing collaboration knowledge in the context of a Virtual Organisation (VO). Knowledge representation embodies the characteristics of a VO from its incubation, formation, operation and termination. It is necessary to scope and identify all the collaboration knowledge utilised in a VO’s life cycle. The classification of collaboration knowledge or knowledge repositories is described in terms of 3 different types of organisations: individual enterprises, collaboration pools and VOs. Therefore collaboration knowledge falls into three main categories: enterprise knowledge, collaboration pool knowledge and VO knowledge. Later they are elucidated in ontology. The terms and concepts are defined and considered to be consistent with each other.
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Wulan, M., Dai, X., Popplewell, K. (2010). Collaboration Knowledge Ontologies to Support Knowledge Management and Sharing in Virtual Organisations. In: Popplewell, K., Harding, J., Poler, R., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability IV. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-257-5_17
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