I am glad to announce that the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on
[seen on wikisym-announce]:

Scientific Communities of Practice are online now. Please have a look
at:
http://jem-thematic.net/en/node/869

The workshop raised a lot of interesting discussions 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.

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.

Other talks addressed:
* The collaboration and knowledge engineering of communities using
Wikis
* The change management and consistency challenge during collaboration
* The potential modeling of virtual CoPs based on semantically marked up
documents

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 (see below). Your suggestions, perspectives, and potential
cooperations are highly appreciate.