O'CoP, an Ontology Dedicated to Communities of Practice

The Palette project dedicated to learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs) aims to offer several services for CoPs, in particular Knowledge Management (KM) services based on an ontology dedicated to CoPs, the so-called O’CoP. Built from information sources about the Palette CoPs, O’CoP aims both at modelling the members of the CoP and at annotating the CoP’s knowledge resources. The paper describes the structure of O’CoP, its main concepts and relations, and it reports some lessons learnt from the cooperative building of this ontology.