Data Technologies and Applications: Volume 52 Issue 1

Knowledge management infrastructures and organizational intelligence in Iranian research centers

Hamid Keshavarz, Mohammad Reza Esmaili Givi, Mohammad Reza Shekari

The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible relationship between knowledge management infrastructures (KMI) and organizational intelligence (OI) in two country-wide…

When situativity meets objectivity in peer production of knowledge: the case of the WikiRate platform

Richard Allister Mills, Stefano De Paoli

The purpose of this paper is to further the debate on Knowledge Artefacts (KAs), by presenting the design of WikiRate, a Collective Awareness platform whose goal is to support a…

Cultivating virtual communities of practice in KAFKA

Fabio Sartori, Riccardo Melen, Stefano Pinardi

The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for cultivating virtual communities of practice in distributed environments. The framework is based on the integration of…

A case-based reasoning approach to rate microcredit borrower risk in online Kiva P2P lending model

Mohammed Jamal Uddin, Giuseppe Vizzari, Stefania Bandini, Mahmood Osman Imam

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the case-based reasoning (CBR) approach to improve microcredit initiatives by means of providing a borrower risk rating system.

The subjective side of DiDIY: the profile of makers in network marketers communities

Carolina Guerini, Eliana Alessandra Minelli

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the profile of DiDIYers and the antecedents of digital do it yourself (DiDIY) in Network Marketing Direct Selling Organizations (NMDSO).

Objectivistic knowledge artifacts

Rosina O. Weber

By establishing a conceptual path through the field of artificial intelligence for objectivistic knowledge artifacts (KAs), the purpose of this paper is to propose an extension to…

Knowledge artifacts: the implications of incommensurable dimensions for their design

Carla Simone

The purpose of this paper is to overcome the confusion generated by a loose definition of the term knowledge artifact (KA) and its impacts on the design of technologies supporting…

Kairotic and chronological knowing: diabetes logbooks in-and-out of the hospital

Enrico Maria Piras

The paper reflects on the role of knowledge artefacts in the patient-provider relationship across the organisational boundaries of the clinical setting. Drawing on the analysis of…

3D printing objects as knowledge artifacts for a do-it-yourself approach in clinical practice: A questionnaire-based user study in the orthopaedics domain

Federico Cabitza, Angela Locoro, Aurelio Ravarini

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of the digital do-it-yourself (DiDIY) in the medical domain. In particular, the main contribution of the paper is the…