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Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals

Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals

Jörg Becker, Tobias Heide, Ralf Knackstedt, Matthias Steinhorst
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 5 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 1938-0194|EISSN: 1938-0208|EISBN13: 9781466631953|DOI: 10.4018/jwp.2013040101
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Becker, Jörg, et al. "Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals." IJWP vol.5, no.2 2013: pp.1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jwp.2013040101

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Becker, J., Heide, T., Knackstedt, R., & Steinhorst, M. (2013). Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals. International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP), 5(2), 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jwp.2013040101

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Becker, Jörg, et al. "Supporting Knowledge Management and Collaboration in Research Communities Using Automatically Created Research Portals," International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP) 5, no.2: 1-16. http://doi.org/10.4018/jwp.2013040101

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Abstract

Research portals have been proposed as a means of managing knowledge and fostering collaboration in research communities. However, implementing and maintaining a research portal is costly and involves a lot of technical knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a research portal generator designed to automatically create such portals. The generator provides a configurable set of knowledge management and collaboration features. The purpose of the generator is to ease the process of setting up and using a research portal. The paper contributes to promoting research portals as a means of sharing knowledge and facilitating collaboration in research communities. Following a design science research process, the authors derive objectives for a research portal generator, iteratively implement these objectives, and evaluate the functionality of the created portals against the current state of the art of 813 research portals. They demonstrate that portals created by the generator exhibit a consistently higher level of maturity than research portals currently present on the Internet.

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