I am glad to announce that the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Scientific Communities of Practice are online now.

The workshop raised a lot of interesting discussion on scientific tools and methods that potentially can support the scientific community, in particular, the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics disciplines.

David Chavalarias presented his ideas on how to use occurrence and co-occurrence of keywords to reconstruct scientific communities on the micro, meso, and macro level. He pointed to applications that could improve existing browsing and navigation of scientific documents. (abstract, slides, JEM link)

Florian Rabe introduce the history of logics and pointed us to different communities that evolved throughout the last 100 years and lead to diverse logical foundations. (abstract, slides, JEM link)

Find further contributions below:

• Joachim Baumeister: Capture and Refactoring in Knowledge Wikis: Coping with the Knowledge Soup (JEM link)
• Christoph Lange: Improving mathematical knowledge items by acting on issue-based community feedback (JEM link)
• Christine Müller: CoPit - The Community of Practice Toolkit (JEM link)
• Michael Kohlhase: ArXiv (JEM link)
• Normen Müller: Management of Change (JEM link)
• Söhnke Holsten: Hybrid OMDdoc Documents in Software Development (JEM link)
• Achim Mahnke: Document Variant Relations for Identifying and Supporting Scientific Communities of Practice (JEM link)

We are looking forward to further interesting contributions of the upcoming 3rd SCooP. If you feel that the topic of communities of practice in science is interesting, we encourage you to join the discussion on the SCooP mailing list, the JEM forum, or to contact us directly. Your suggestions, perspectives, and potential cooperations are highly appreciate.

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