Knowledge artifacts within Knowing communities to foster Collective Knowledge

In this paper we present a novel model of knowledge creation and diffusion (viz. the Knowledge-Stream model) in communities of knowledgeable citizens (viz. knowing communities). This model takes into account the individual, social and cultural dimensions of knowledge (what we denote as co-knowledge) to account for the various ways knowledge is “circulated” among people (i.e., members of any social structure); we also propose the concept of IT Knowledge Artifact, as the technological driver enabling such a circulation, and exemplify its main roles in a citizen science project that we are going to undertake in the domains of the urban cultural heritage and the food- and diet-related traditions. [please mind that the version shared on this platform is a reduced version (approx. 1 page less) than the one published in the conference proceedings]