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 * Tagunity clusters**

A **//cluster//**, in the context of this research, is an element that provides a way to conceptualise the connections and overlaps in the literature. A cluster might be an edited book with a number of influential chapters; a group of researchers at a research institution, or in an online collaboration space. An individual researcher or opinion-leader can also be a cluster, in the context of this research. 1157267563

Clusters have relations to pathways, in the context of this research. Pathways provide a way of navigating the connections between clusters and as potential narrative pathways in the progress from institutional metadata to distributed or community metadata; from online database for use by individuals, to online databases being seen and used as community spaces, with tags or metadata that are both individual and communal.

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 * Some clusters**
 * Journals
 * Publishers
 * Physical spaces e.g. palo_alto
 * Universities (e.g. Univeristy of Indiana; Vrije Universiteit; National Univeristy of Ireland at Galway)

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 * List of Tagunity clusters**

e.g. etienne_wenger The work of Etienne Wenger, has since 1991 or before, been influential in fields of organisational learning, and workplace training. In online technologies, Wenger's 2001 report [//link//], and the //Technology for communities// report/blog with Nancy White, John D. Smith, and Kim Rowe (see [|pdf]) suggest a continued intersest in online CoP spaces by Wenger and others. In the area of training teacher to develop and use tools for online learning, the work of Sasha Barab and several others from the University of Indiana (see indiana_cluster
 * Tagunity clusters**
 * Wenger on CoPs, & CoPs & IT**

PUBLISHERS

The CUP [| Learning in Doing] series comprises many titles relevant to the Tagunity's literature review, for example:
 * The Learning in Doing (Cambridge University Press)** ([])
 * Barab, Kling, & Gray,//Designing virtual communities in the service of learning//, (2004)
 * Renninger and Shumar's //Building virtual communities//, (2002)
 * Engeström, Miettinen, & Punamäki-Gitai's //Perspectives on activity theory//, (1999)
 * Salomon's //Distributed cognitions//, (1997)
 * Seth Chaiklin, Jean Lave's //Understanding Practice: Perspectives on activity and context//, (1997)
 * Middleton and Engeström's //Cognition and communication at work//, (1996), includes a chapter by Lucy Suchman entitled "Constituting shared workspaces"
 * Lucy Suchman//Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication// (1987)


 * Idea Group publishers** idea_group
 * 2006**
 * //Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies//.
 * //Encyclopedia of knowledge management//, includes: "Distributed knowledge management" (Cuel, Bouquet and Bonifacio); "Domain ontologies" (Cristani, & Cuel, 2006).
 * 2004**
 * Paul Hildreth & Chris Kimble //Knowledge networks: innovation through communities of practice//, e.g. Donald Hislop's chapter: "The paradox of communities of practice: Knowledge sharing between communities"
 * Paul Hildreth, Ph.D rewritten and published as: //Going virtual: Distributed communities in practice//

us_army_cops e.g. CompanyCommand case study, and publications by Nate Allen, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner, Steve Schweitzer:
 * CoPs in the US Army**
 * Dixon, N. M., Allen, N., Burgess, T., Kilner, P., & Schweitzer, S. J. (2005). CompanyCommand: Unleashing the power of the army profession. West Point, NY: Center for the Advancement of Leader Development & Organizational Learning.
 * Hoadley, C. M., & Kilner, P. G. (2005). Using technology to transform communities of practice into knowledge-building communities. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 25(4), 31-40.
 * Long, L. N., & Schweitzer, S. J. (2004). Information and knowledge transfer through archival journals and on-line communities (No. AIAA Paper 2004-1264). Reno, NV: AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.
 * Schweitzer, S. J. (2003). Discussion forums: The Core of online communities of practice. Retrieved June 16, 2005, from []
 * Schweitzer, S. J. (n.d.). Community Networks: What are they and what is their current status. Retrieved July 8, 2005, from []

JOURNALS > scholars who share an interest in the study of human mind in its cultural and historical contexts. Our emphasis is research that seeks to resolve methodological problems associated with the analysis of human and theoretical approaches that place culture and activity at the center of attempts to understand human nature. Our participants come from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, cognitive science, education, linguistics, psychology and sociology. (See [|MCA])
 * Mind, Culture and Activity** is a multi-disciplinary journal for:

Editors include Yrjö Engeström and Michael Cole. Jean Lave and Bruno Latour are both members of the editorial board.

MCA is published by the [|Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition] (LCHC), University of California, and available via [|Lawrence Erlbaum Associates]. Articles cited in Tagunity include:
 * Barab, S. A., Schatz, S., & Scheckler, R. (2004). Using activity theory to conceptualize online community and using online community to conceptualize activity theory. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 11(1), 25-47.

//UNIVERSITIES// indiana.edu Many of the contributors to Barab, Kling, and Gray's (2004), //Designing for virtual communities in the services of learning//, are influential in their own right (Rob Kling, Margaret Riel, Linda Polin, James MaKinster, Rebecca Scheckler, Christina Courtright, Mark Schlager, Judi Fucso, Thomas Schwen, Ann Renninger, Jim Hewitt, Amy Bruckman, Sharon Derry, Julia Lee, Jong-Baeg Kim, Jennifer Seymour, Emmanuel Koku, Barry Wellman, Susan Herring, Kirk Sluder, Deborah Tatar), many being teacher-researchers from the University of Indiana.

vrije_univeristy Vrije Universiteit e.g. Michel Klein's Ph.D thesis (2004). //Change management for distributed ontologies.