Abstract: Methods and systems for providing knowledge documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system may include a community of practice, including members and a knowledge management architecture managing knowledge documents used by the community of practice and maintaining a user profile for each member having criteria reflecting a preferred format for received knowledge documents. The knowledge management architecture may be configured to receive a search request for knowledge documents from a first member. The first member may be associated with a first user profile with first user profile criteria. The knowledge management architecture may also be configured to generate a search result based on the search request. The search result may include one or more of the knowledge documents.

Abstract: Methods and systems for managing knowledge documents in a community of practice environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a community of practice environment may include a set of communities of practice, each including respective members and each being assigned respective knowledge documents. The community of practice environment may also include a database system storing the knowledge documents used by the communities of practice. The database system may be configured to deliver copies of the knowledge documents to the communities of practices in response to requests to access the knowledge documents from respective community of practice members.