Developing an Architecture of Participation

Graham Attwell (1) , Raymond Elferink (2)

1 Pontydysgu
2 Raycom

This paper focuses on work undertaken through the European Commission funded Bazaar project to establish a community of practice for researchers and practitioners in open source software and open content. The paper considers the use of social software to support such a communitty of practice. It consiers some of the theories and ideas behind supporting communities before going on to outline the design of an Architecture of Participation.

Keywords: social softwares

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Technology for Human Learning

Graham Attwell, Raymond Elferink. Developing an Architecture of Participation. Conference ICL2007, September 26 -28, 2007, 2007, Villach, Austria. 14 p. ⟨hal-00197255⟩