<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Margaret Elliott</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mark S. Ackerman</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Walt Scacchi</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Knowledge Work Artifacts: Kernel Cousins for Free/Open Source Software Development</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of ACM Group 2007 Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information access</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information distillation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information reuse</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">knowledge management</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ackerm/pub/07b45/group294-ackerman.v2.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">177-186</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 4pt&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Most empirical studies of peer production have focused on the final products of these efforts (such as software in Free/Open Source projects), but there are also many other knowledge artifacts that improve the effectiveness of the project.&amp;nbsp;This paper presents a study of an intermediate work product, or informalism, used in a Free/Open Source Software project, GNUe.&amp;nbsp;A digest-like artifact called the Kernel Cousin (KC) was used extensively in the project.&amp;nbsp;These KCs allowed critical coordination and memory, but at the cost of considerable effort.&amp;nbsp;The paper presents two examples of the KCs' use in the project as well as an analysis of their benefits and costs.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>