Epistheme: Scientific knowledge management environment in the SpeCS collaborative framework.

Nowadays, researchers create and change information faster than in the past. Although great part of this exchanging is made by documental form, there is also a great informal or tacit knowledge exchange in people interactions. The Epistheme environment was designed for Scientific Knowledge Management. This environment is an instance of the SpeCS Collaborative Framework and aims at knowledge creation, according to Nonaka's and Takeuchi theory. There, researchers can be provided with all necessary knowledge to execute their tasks, to make decisions, collaborate with one another and disseminate individual knowledge to transform it into organizational knowledge. This article shows the Epistheme framework with the modules of identification, creation, validation, integration, acquisition and knowledge distribution.