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HICSS
2002
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband
CANDT
2009
15 years 9 days ago
Overhearing the crowd: an empirical examination of conversation reuse in a technical support community
This paper describes a mixed method, empirical analysis of conversation reuse in an online technical support community. I find that the same characteristics that make the conversa...
Derek L. Hansen
LRE
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
The GOLD Community of Practice: an infrastructure for linguistic data on the Web
The GOLD Community of Practice is proposed as a model for linking on-line linguistic data to an ontology. The key components of the model include the linguistic data resources them...
Scott Farrar, William D. Lewis
AIWORC
2000
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Building Virtual Communities for Research Collaboration
This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It wil...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Janet Ho, Mark H. Chignell...
CSSW
2007
15 years 20 days ago
A Prototype to Explore Content and Context on Social Community Sites
: The SIOC Ontology can be used to express information from the online community sites in a machine-readable form using RDF. This rich data structure allows us to easily analyse an...
Uldis Bojars, Benjamin Heitmann, Eyal Oren