Iter Community: Prototyping an Environment for Social Knowledge Creation and Communication
Date
2014-12-16
Authors
Bowen, William R.
Crompton, Constance
Hiebert, Matthew
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Publisher
Scholarly and Research Communication
Abstract
This article focuses on the features and challenges of Iter Community (IC), a new
collaborative research environment which aims to aid social knowledge creation for
the communities that have formed around Iter’s discovery tools and publication
platforms. e underlying vision of IC as a flexible environment for communication,
exchange, and collaboration is explained via the history and conceptual framework of
IC, preliminary details concerning its infrastructure and features, and a brief
examination of the Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript as an IC pilot project.
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Keywords
Online research environments, Knowledge co-creation, Social knowledge creation, Web 2.0, Scholarly communication platforms, Online publishing, Infrastructure, Prototyping
Citation
Bowen, William R., Crompton, Constance, & Hiebert, Matthew. (2014). Iter Community: Prototyping an Environment for Social Knowledge Creation and Communication. Scholarly and Research Communication, 5(4): 0401193, 9 pp.