Towards an Ontological Approach to Enrich a Community of Interest in Orthopaedic Specialty

A community of interest is helpful to professionals to assemble around a common interest and exchange information and experiences. However, the most used communities are too general for some specific areas and they are unable to store and classify relevant information for the community users. In this paper, we propose an approach that can be integrated with existent communities of practice. Moreover, it allows to specify and share the information relevant to the community of practice of orthopaedic based on a wiki. Instead of using a generic wiki where the knowledge is stored in textual format, a semantic wiki is used. This semantic tool, combined with an ontology description of the domain, stores the information in a computer readable format that could provide in the future additional advanced services to the community professionals.