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Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Social Tagging

Tennis, Joseph T. (2006) Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Social Tagging. In Moukdad, Haidar, Eds. Proceedings Information Science Revisited: Approaches to Innovation Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information., York University, Toronto.

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Abstract

This paper outlines three information organization frameworks: library classification, social tagging, and boundary infrastructures. It then outlines functionality of these frameworks. The paper takes a neo-pragmatic approach. The paper finds that these frameworks are complementary, and by understanding the differences and similarities that obtain between them, researchers and developers can begin to craft a vocabulary of evaluation. |||| Cet article présente trois cadres d’organisation de l’information : la classification des bibliothèques, l’étiquetage social et les infrastructures frontières. Cet article souligne les différentes fonctionnalités de ces trois cadres. Une approche néo-pragmatique est utilisée. Les résultats indiquent que ces cadres sont complémentaires et que par la compréhension des différences et des similarités qui existent entre eux, les chercheurs et les développeurs peuvent commencer à créer un vocabulaire pour l’évaluation.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:comparisons, ontologies, evaluation, classification, tagging, folksonomy
Subjects:Knowledge Organization
Evaluation
ID Code:1956
Deposited On:21 June 2007
Alternative Locations:http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2006/tennis_2006.pdf
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