CoPe_it! is an innovative Web-based tool that complies with collaborative practices to provide members of communities with the appropriate means to manage individual and collective knowledge during a sense-making and/or decision-making session. In this article, we demonstrate its applicability in tackling cognitively-complex collaboration settings, which are characterized by big volumes of interrelated data obtained from diverse sources and knowledge expressed by diverse participants. We focus on issues related to the representation of such settings and propose an approach to make it easier for participants to follow the evolution of collaboration, comprehend it in its entirety, and meaningfully aggregate data to resolve the issue under consideration.

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In this article, we demonstrate how CoPe_it! – a web-based argumentative collaboration support tool – enables one to manage cognitively-complex collaboration settings, that is settings characterized by big volumes of interrelated data obtained from diverse sources and knowledge expressed by diverse participants. The CoPe_it! approach focuses on issues related to the representation of such settings and aims at making it easier for participants to follow the evolution of a collaboration, comprehend it in its entirety, and meaningfully aggregate data in order to resolve the issue under consideration.