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A Reference Ontology for Profile Representation in Communities of Practice

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Communities of Practice (CoP) integrate people in a group in order to learn in a collaborative way. In these communities it is necessary to establish a formal and standardized representation of the interests and the knowledge that emerges from the CoP. With this scenario in mind, this paper presents a reference ontology for a user profile representation in a CoP framework. The main idea of this framework is to realize that a foundation for the semantic web is feasible to aggregate on virtual communities in the context of collaborative learning. The concern of this work is to establish a reference ontology for the general profile that can be used as guidelines to build a computational CoP framework for realizing such a foundation.

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  1. Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil

    João Luis T. da Silva, Alexandre Moreto Ribeiro & Elisa Boff

  2. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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da Silva, J.L.T., Moreto Ribeiro, A., Boff, E., Primo, T., Viccari, R.M. (2011). A Reference Ontology for Profile Representation in Communities of Practice. In: García-Barriocanal, E., Cebeci, Z., Okur, M.C., Öztürk, A. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24731-6_7

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