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Further research
DRAFT 1159178630 This page considers some of the possibilities for expanding on the Tagunity framework, especially 2007-2008.

Ethnographies of folksonomies and shared semantic metadata within an organisation context
Phil Agre is quoted on the [|cofpractice] bibliography as saying that Wanda Orlikowski's //Improvising organizational transformation over time// (2001) is a an example of > organizational ethnography at its absolute best, serious social theory integrated with fine-grained use of narrative evidence. A next step might be to analyse the materials [across a] specific industry [as] part of [a particular company's] longer-term historical evolution. ([], retrieved September 10, 2006)

Technically speaking, the creation of community ontologies or folksonomies, may leave a chronology of the decisions, changes and updates that go into a the evolution of a community's collective tags. It is conceivable that such a technical log could be use one timeline on which to build an ethnographic narrative, of the type described by Agre, as exemplified by Orlikowski (2001). The focus of such an ethnography could be the actions and interactions of human and non-human agents and how they support each other in the creation of knowledge and its material-representation.

Other (more) technical possibilities for further research
e.g. **exploration of social media for communities of practice**, perhaps for members of informal networks, professional association, business or institution.

Technical platform for community-social software
Perhaps with a common MySQL database, e.g. > Scuttle is based on an open-source project licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can host it on your own web server for free, whether it is on the Internet, a private network or just your own computer. > Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API. Almost all of the neat tools made for that system can be modified to work with Scuttle instead. If you find a tool that won't let you change the API address, ask the creator to add this setting. You never know, they might just do it.
 * Schuttle, an open source social_tagging application that supports most of the del.icio.us API [] (Cited in the miter_case_study)
 * Joomla open source content management system (CMS)[]

other tools
Blogs? Biblio-blogs? Semantic tools? Taxonomy and ontology editing tools? //Photo-tagging?// q. Is their a flickr-like application for storing and tagging images? q. Is it compatible with other application using MySQL?

Functionality

 * CoPs e.g. Tomoye; cp2 especially user profiles.
 * //Social networking// e.g. LinkedIn
 * Mash-ups
 * IBM dogear, in particular, what does it do? Is it open source?
 * Topic Maps; tag-clouds; which functionalities in the Web 2.0?

Interoperablity

 * The possibility to move structured data between browsers (e.g. Firefox), RSS readers, other applications (e.g. vCard information in MS outlook, LinkedIn etc).

Cases to examine

 * IBM //dogear//
 * Mitre case study