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the different evaluation annotations and then
recommend those having a high level of
scores to other members.
The service can refine the search process by
finding the resources that meet the needs of
members and for what members having the
same profile used them and evaluated them
with a high level of scores.
The manager of the CoPE can have an idea
about the utilisation of knowledge resources
by members and about the participation of
members too in the annotation process.
Members can learn from the experience of
others through the results annotations. This
will help them to improve their expertise and
practical knowledge.
Furthermore, in addition to this different forms
of knowledge acquisition and reuse, this initiative,
will help members to improve their engagement in
the CoPE. Indeed, this will motivate them to
collaborate and participate actively in the
community. The collaboration here concerns
especially the reification process of tacit knowledge
in the community memory. In addition, we can
consider the annotations as a trigger for other
activities in the community, as they can open further
discussions and exchanges among members.
8 CONCLUSIONS
The present paper described an ontology based-
framework for knowledge capitalization and reuse
within online CoPEs. The ontology allows to
annotate knowledge resources in order to facilitate
their retrieval and reuse by CoPEs’ members. Our
main objective is to organize the process of
capitalization of knowledge and to allow a
knowledge elicitation through manual and automatic
annotation of knowledge resources by capturing the
members’ experience and feedback. We have
proposed a model for manual annotation.
In our future work, we envisage to complete our
ontology, integrate a SPARQL engine to allow
querying of the knowledge base, and to allow an
automatic and semi-automatic annotation of
knowledge resources.
Finally, it is necessary to check the usefulness of
the framework and to describe the experience in the
members’ feedback and point of view.
To do so,
we’ll evaluate our approach in a CoPE to be created
in the University of Science and Technology
(USTHB) called A-CoPE (Algerian CoP of E-
learning), and whose main objective is to promote e-
learning in higher education context.
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