“Socio-Semantic Web” applications: towards a methodology based on the Theory of the Communities of Action

“Socio-Semantic Web”(S2W) applications, such as “Knowledge-Based MarketPlaces” (KBMs), lead to co-construct symbolic organizational artifacts including “maps” or others semantic instruments, bringing a visibility and a reflexivity of the knowledge and of the action in communities. In presenting and comparing examples of KBMs, we note that the creation and the whole lifecycle of such S2W applications mobilize the actors at an epistemic level, but also at socio-organizational and inter-personal levels. A methodology to accompany S2W applications must take in account all these aspects, and we suggest to base it on the Theory of Symbolic Communicational Transactions and Communities of Action (Zacklad 03b).