De la gestion de documents à la gestion des communautés de connaissance : éléments d’un référentiel collaboratif commun comme facilitateur de la création des connaissances dans un espace collaboratif

Collaboration, an organizational innovation, is now happening to companies to deal with the complexity of their environment. It is a new form of work, based on the logic of partnership. Indeed, the network as a partnership space, is a space where the forces working together to achieve goals difficult to achieve individually. Despite the expansion of collaborative events since the 1980's in the literature within the field of information sciences and communications, we found a lack of consensus around the term "collaboration". The latter is also subject to an amalgam with other concepts such as cooperation, while their scope of practice is different. As a matter of fact, we consider a term poorly treated, resented and abused. Therefore, this article points out, from a clarification of various aspects of collaboration, its role in knowledge creation. In practice, the collaboration also raises problems of an informational and organizational is answered in the form of a collaborative group repository. The goal is to develop ownership of good collaborative practices to exploit the full potential of the network