Prestipino, MarcoKeil-Slawik, ReinhardSelke, HaraldSzwillus, Gerd2017-11-222017-11-2220043-486-57624-0https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/7420We show that virtual communities are able to serve individual, highly specific information needs. Our analysis also indicates that existing technology for communities might not support collaborative creation and maintenance of knowledge well and thus improvements to the interaction and visualization mechanisms might be beneficial. We present and briefly discuss an architecture for a community system supporting communication and collaboration on shared materialenText/Conference Paper