about_tagunity

Tagunity is about social tagging and practice theories like Communities of Practice (CoPs).

The Tagunity wiki is a solo effort by Warren Crosbie; Tagunity project is an academic component of Warren's Bachelor of Communications (Honours) (Media Studies), at the Department of Applied Communications, RMIT University.

Is Tagunity a perspective, a view, a jigsaw, or a lens?

This question has no single answer. Presently, I imagine Tagunity to be like a small boy looking into a dark chicken house on a bright sunny day. The boy has seen a chicken, but does not know what they do in the chicken house; he sees bits of the interior of the chicken house, but no complete chicken. He hears sounds, and recognises familiar smells. However the boy can get no single view of the chickens' activities, or their relations. He sees little bits and pieces from various small hole in the chicken's environment. He tries to build meaning what he sees with what he thinks he knows. And of course the chickens have no apparent interest in this boy's curiosity. 1155176662

Fundamentally the Tagunity framework begins as a list of concepts. While the concepts at first appear to have little in common, since, or example formal approaches to content classification (e.g. taxonomy) might appear to exclude any notion of community as a matter of definition. However, examination of the literature from diverse sources begins to reveal that the concepts of community and content classification however do have things in common. For example there has been a wide range of research by technologist that attempts to bring notions of 'community' to-the-for in building applications for use by distributed groups via the World Wide Web. From these overlaps it emerges that the worlds of formal and informal classification both have something to learn from social-centric research perspectives such as CoPs and other PBTs. Tagunity forecasts that there may also be ways of building online systems that are employ both formal and informal classification, and goes on to conclude that consideration of PBTs could have a lot to offer the research and development of such system. 1157327992

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 * Tagunity commenced**: June 21, 2006.
 * Scheduled completion**: November, 2006.