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Research problem
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There is a large amount of literature published on the use of online tools for sharing knowledge via the Internet. The literature spans several disciplines and technical fields. Terms such as knowledge and information are often used interchangeably, as are the terms community and social network.

How then, are we to understand the potential of online environments, or systems, to support knowledge and information sharing among system users who are communities members, or members of online social networks? 1168932855

In other words, how are we to make sense of the literature, in particular the inter-relations between knowledge sharing, community, ontologies and the Semantic Web, folksonomies and social tagging, and content categorisation and classification?

Research approach
Following the intent of research on the social-construction of technology (SCOT) [//insert references//], and practice based theories (PBTs), and communities of practice (CoPs) in particular, this review of the literature explores what PBTs have to offer our understanding of classification and knowledge sharing, online.

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