Supporting Collaborative Information Activities in Networked Communities

of the team or community act as consultants. # Archival of information judged potentially useful by group members into a group repository. More evidence of cooperative aspects comes from the work of Twidale at al. [3,8] who have studied in depth the kinds of collaboration that can occur in either the physical or digital library. They have proposed a typology of the cooperative search activities that could benefit from computer support, - 2 - constructed upon a foundation of the three main objects they identify as central to search activities: people, the search process and the search results. Specifically, they identify three main categories of computer support: . Services for identifying persons that could advise upon the search, possibly in a synchronous mode (as proposed in [5]); for example, experts or users who have previously conducted a search on a similar topic. . Services for recommending, rating, an