GloFood: A Community-oriented System for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration

Abstract

In the last decades, technology has evolved exponentially and become a big part of our daily activities. The widespread use of the Internet coupled with the growth of social networks allowed a more intense search for knowledge sharing as well as the creation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships. As a result, several learning communities appeared and grew. Each community has its central topic, cooking being an example of these topics. The key idea is that some cooks from around the world might want to enhance their culinary knowledge and, to do so, they can join a related community. This paper introduces GloFood which is a community-oriented system supporting a collaborative learning community that tries to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration.