Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
What the Alliance is about is to try and achieve a uniform data structure that makes it possible to establish, with different levels of certainty, relationships between concepts in a given domain (we start with biomedical). The idea of a single, overarching, monolithic ontology doesn’t fit this model. Instead, several ontologies must co-exist, and yes, if combined, they can yield contradictions.
"Das Projektvorhaben ICKE 2.0 entwickelte eine offene, integrierte Kollaborations- und Wissensumgebung (ICKEwiki) für die Vernetzung von Personen, die interpersonelle Kommunikation und die kooperative Wissenserzeugung. (Projektlaufzeit: 01.11.2008-31.10.2010"
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