Virtual community knowledge evolution

Puts forth a vision and a possible architecture for a community knowledge evolution system. We propose augmenting a multimedia document repository (digital library) with innovative knowledge evolution support, including computer-mediated communications, community process support, decision support, advanced hypermedia features and conceptual knowledge structures. These tools and the techniques developed around them would enable members of a virtual community to learn from, contribute to, and collectively build upon the community´s knowledge and improve many member tasks. The resulting collaborative knowledge evolution support system (CKESS) would provide an enhanced digital library infrastructure serving as an ever-evolving repository of the community´s knowledge, which members would actively use in everyday tasks and regularly update.