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Title:
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BROADENING THE PERSPECTIVE ON CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS IN THE WEB: ANALYZING WEB CLASSIFICATION AS A SITUATED ACTIVITY WITHIN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE |
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Author(s):
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Fernando Figueira Filho, João P. de Albuquerque, Paulo Lício de Geus |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-21-2 |
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Editors:
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Nik Bessis, Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Classification, communities of practice, web 2.0, semantic web |
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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117 |
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Last Page:
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124 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The terms social web and web 2.0 have been used to refer to cost-effective platforms for collaborative knowledge production in the World Wide Web. In this context, recent web knowledge-sharing tools incite a growing change in the role of users from mere consumers to active knowledge producers. In this paper, we broaden the perspective on the approaches to information classification currently used in the web 2.0 by drawing on social theories that consider the production and consumption of categories as a situated activity that takes place within Communities of Practice. We analyze current approaches to information classification in the web (ontology-based versus social tagging approaches), arguing that approaches that impose standardization are not well suited to large-scale information systems in the web and its complex information ecology, where the existence of heterogeneous groups of users demands multiple perspectives of a given knowledge domain. We finally suggest that additional contextual information can be gathered in order to improve current classification approaches and the web systems in which these approaches are embedded. |
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