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Knowledge Community
System
Le Phan Huu Bang
Project Number: H022560
Advisor: Assoc Prof Poo Chiang Choon,
Danny
Agenda
Introduction
System Components
Implementation
Conclusion
Demonstration
Q&A
Introduction – Why K-
Comm?
Knowledge sharing is important
◦ Vital for company to survive
◦ Many questions are repetitive
◦ Knowledge can only grow by sharing
Difficult
to encourage sharing
knowledge
◦ People are reluctant to share
◦ Knowledge = Power
◦ People do not trust each other
System at a Glance
K-Comm – The Features
K-Comm is a knowledge-focused
social network
Social Network Environment: blogs,
forums, friends, groups, file sharing,
etc.
Knowledge-based Features:
◦ Questions & answers: seek and
contribute knowledge
◦ Get linked to people who might have
the answers
◦ Share knowledge
◦ Collaborate with like-minded people
Similar Systems
K-Comm – The Selling
Points
Combination of various features
Intuitive
UI
Not another Yahoo! Or Google
Answers
Not another social network
Not another blog
Not another forum
K-Comm Comparison
Yahoo!
& Social
Feature Blogs & K-
Goggle Networ KMS
s Forums Comm
Answer ks
Blogs s

Forums
Friendshi
p
Groups
Q&A
Quality
control Enhance
Domain General Personal Specific Specific d
General
System Components
User Profiling Package
Social Networking
Questions & Answers
Package
Ask and answer questions
Search for questions and answers
Evaluate questions and answers
Organize questions and answers
Ask and Answer Questions
Users can ask and answer
questions
System will evaluate the users,
the questions and answers
according to the activities and
ratings
Questions are categorized into
different categories and by using
tags
List of categories can be updated
Ask and Answer Questions
Search and Organize
Q&As
Using the Search box
Using the Latest and Interesting
tab
Using the widgets
Evaluation
 Evaluate the questions and answers
 System will analyze and evaluate the
questioners and answers
User Interface
Simple, intuitive and user friendly
Look cool: Ajax, drag & drop
I can find what I want to find
Flexible, easy to use and learn
Implementation
Elgg framework as a foundamental
platform for the system
Elgg K-Comm
◦ Social networking
◦ Plug-in  Q&As, customized look and
feels
◦ Elgg Data Model  more Object-
oriented approach
◦ Metadata and annotations  users’
contributions and knowledge value
estimation
◦ Widget  tools to manage and organize
Q&As
Elgg Data Model
Core Library
Question
Answer
Category
Skillrecord
Core Library
Widgets
Each widget has a view and edit
interface
Register the widget with Elgg
through the start.php in the Q&A
plug-in
Widgets
User Interface
Implemented as a plug-in 
extensible and reusable
Provide the layout for Q&A component
Make use of jQuery plug in for effects
Skill Level System
Ratings of answers and questions
can be a good basis to evaluate
the level of knowledge that the
poster possesses
Help the users identify the
potential of knowledge sharer
Something missing from other
similar systems
Skill Level System – An
example
Skill Level System – An
Example
Skill Level System
Requirements
Inscale of 10
Calculated based on
◦ Ratings of questions and answers
◦ Total number of questions and
answers
◦ Best answers
Not decrease due to inactivity
Skill Level System -
Formula
Conclusion
Specifications of the system
◦ Definition
◦ Features
◦ Characteristics
Implementation approach
Implement fundamental core
features and components
Maintain flexibility, extensibility
an reusability
Future Features
Presentation
◦ Concept-map, mind map
◦ Tree view
Analysis of Q&As
◦ Concept extraction  Automated
Q&As
◦ Information retrieval: e.g. searching
based on profile or relevant hits
Tag relationship