Creating Communities

Virtual Communities for Creating Shared Music Channels

We present an approach to automatically create virtual communities of users with similar music tastes. Our goal is to create personalized music channels for these communities in a distributed way, so that they can for example be used in peer-to-peer networks. To find suitable techniques for creating these communities we analyze graphs created from real-world recommender datasets and identify sp...

Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements thatmight contribute to the successful ‘‘design’’ and continuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide research evidence to support the design and establishment of a CoP based on systems thinking within this depar...

Creating environments of care with transgender communities.

Partnerships between transgender individuals and community health nurses have been a primary source of monitoring and responding to the impact of the HIV epidemic on transgender communities, specifically transgender women. This article provides two perspectives: first, from a transgender service provider, and second, from a public health nurse, on forming partnerships that brought consumers and...

Creating Viable Living Linkages Between Farms and Communities

Creating Semantically Integrated Communities on the World Wide Web

In this paper, we address the question: How can we create a network of semantically integrated communities on the World Wide Web? We first clarify some confusion about what “semantics” means and introduce a semantic continuum ranging from the kind of semantics that exist on the Web today to a rich semantic infrastructure on the Semantic Web of the future. We clarify what is meant by “semantic i...