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Sites that offer methodologies and techniques for managing the flow of knowledge between individuals in organizations and institutions.

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Working in Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Geography? Section from a management information systems course on virtual teams as task-based groups that use technology to overcome some of the frictions of time and geography. www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/../../mis/Distributed_Team_Work.html

Distributed Knowledge Modeling through the World Wide Web Article reports on the development of knowledge modeling tools operating through the web to support knowledge acquisition, representation and inference through semantic networks and repertory grids. By Mildred L. G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines. ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/articles/AAAI96/KMWWW/KMWWW.html

Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative Multidisciplinary group dedicated to the study of how knowledge is produced, shared, negotiated and co-constructed within distributed communities and the way in which technologies support these exchanges. Features links and tools. www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dlinderm/cilbuilder/out.php?cilid=40

Peer-Mediated Distributed Knowledge Management Paper propose a peer-to-peer architecture which embodies the KEx principle. By Matteo Bonifacio, Paolo Bouquet, Gianluca Mameli and Michele Nori. [PDF] eprints.biblio.unitn.it/archive/00000426/01/032.pdf

Access Algorithms and Data Structures Underlying a Distributed Knowledge Base Paper presents the algorithms and data structure schemes to be used for knowledge storage and processing by various ICONS components and discusses the algorithms as they appeared through theoretical and experimental studies. By Witold Litwin and Gerard Le www.icons.rodan.pl/docs/ICONS_WP5_T1_D18_0105.pdf

Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge Paper discusses the role of authority as a coordination mechanism under conditions of distributed knowledge as well as other issues of economic organization. By Kirsten Foss and Nicolai J. Foss. [PDF] www.druid.dk/wp/pdf_files/03-08.pdf

Infrastructures, Incentives and Institutions: Fostering Distributed Knowledge Bases for the Learning Society Paper describes a conceptual understanding of the relationship between learning and knowledge accumulation and suggests that diversified systems must be able to cope with the need to produce policies that nurture the learning society. By Pedro Conceicao, in3.dem.ist.utl.pt/laboratories/pdf/2_5.pdf

Can Knowledge be Distributed? The Dynamics of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Alliances Research project focuses on six scientific research teams and the ways in which their group history, communications infrastructure, and knowledge interrelate. Features references. archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/dk

Dynamic Knowledge Communities Initiative An open source initiative intended to be used to network personal and community knowledge. Features project overview, documentation, news, and contact details. www.newmediacenters.org/projects/dkc/index.shtml

Web Epistemology - The Web as Distributed Knowledge Discusses the importance of the epistemic impact of the Web. Features bibliography. webepistemology.org