Communities of Practice (CoPs) group people from all around the globe around a common concern, a common set of problems, which is tackled by exchanging knowledge, ideas, and expertise.

CoPs also exist in science, although scientific communities of practice are more heterogeneous than their corporate counterparts, as members come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Yet, it is exactly for this interdisciplinarity that these groupings are valuable for a for deepening knowledge and learning.

In this context, the SCooP Workshop aims at joining people from research and industry. The workshop wants to facilitate the exchange of experiences and implementations, and will in particular address questions such as:

• active document management
• management of granular and interlinked knowledge object
• aggregation of documents from networks of knowledge items
• fragmentation of documents into networks of interlinked knowledge items
• adaptation of documents regarding community and user practices
• mathematical knowledge management

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