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A Socially-Aware Desktop for e-Science: Supporting Learning in Networked Scientific Processes

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4th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management - Experiences and Visions (WM 2007), Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Management (CoKM), (28-30 March 2007)

Abstract

Research is likely to be the most knowledge-intensive environment, and it seems to be quite surprising that so far knowledge management (KM) techniques from business environments have not been transferred to e-science initiatives in order to improve the efficiency of scientific work on a larger scale. An empirical analysis accomplished in the research area of rapid prototyping has unveiled that due to the high variability and unpredictability of scientific work processes, state-of-the-art business process-oriented KM approaches are not applicable and that scientific work processes need a different paradigm understanding knowledge processes as informal learning processes with a high level of social interaction. For this purpose, we present the model of a “knowledge-added process” as a foundation and a socially-aware desktop as an appropriate tool paradigm.

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