Knowledge sharing through online communities of practice: the case of linux ports to embedded processors
Sergio Luis Toral, Federico Barrero, María del Rocío Martínez Torres · idUS (Universidad de Sevilla) · 2009
The paper explores knowledge sharing processes in online communities analyzing their explicit and stored messages. Their content is processed using latent semantic analysis techniques, obtaining several indicators related to knowledge sharing activities. A factor analysis is then applied to obtain the main dimensions affecting knowledge sharing. The obtained results provide new insights in the underlying knowledge processes in online communities of practice