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Abstract

At first glance, it seems to be quite surprising that so far traditional business process-oriented knowledge management techniques have not been transferred to research in order to improve the efficiency of scientific work on a larger scale. But due to the high variability and unpredictability of scientific work processes, these techniques are not applicable. In fact scientific work processes have to be understood as a network of informal learning processes with a high level of social interaction. For this purpose, we have elaborated the model of a “Knowledge-Added Process” as a new paradigm of process-oriented support. We are developing various models, methods, and tools on the basis of semantic technologies supporting this process. These are bundled in a social semantic desktop and exemplified within three scenarios within the application domain “rapid prototyping”.