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=Ch 1 Overview= > Introduction > Research problem > Rationale > Literature review > Summary of proposed case studies > Why a wiki? > Tagunity: A space for a conversation across disciplines

=Ch 2 Current approaches to online content=

Portals, email, and online communities
> Cases //e.g.// > Tapped In > WiInf-Central > WordNet

Facilitate-interaction approach
> Cases > CompanyCommand > Postgraduate Essentials > Pronett > BP's online community business-portal

Formal ontologies & semantic metadata
Ontologies, the semantic web, technologies, cases > http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/ontologies > http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/ontology_engineering > http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/controlled_vocabularies > http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/faceted_ontologies > The literature on semantic community web portals > Cases > Ontoshare, (KA)2, Bibster [//write//]

Informal content classification
> Concepts > social_tagging; social_bookmarking > folksnomies Social bookmarking business cases > IBM's dogear, Mitre Corporation's Omni

Formal vs. informal, which is best?
Evolving ontologies & semi-structured folksonomies, semantic tagging overlapping_approaches

related concepts
> hierarchical_clustering > platypus_paradox > polyhierarchy > community_metadata > Tensions between ontologies & folksonomies

Related technolgies,
> Simple ontologies: foaf, rss, vCard > [//write//] Semantic blogging case study

=Ch 3 Visions, models & emerging approaches=

Summary of visions
> Sociosemantic web > Pragmatic web > Community driven metadata > Named entity web (NEW) > Cluetrain manifesto > Actor-concept-instance model

Cases & technolgies for further research
> Cases > [//write//] DERI case study > technolgies > [//write//] Realtravel.com (see realtravel_case_study) > [//write//] Rawsugar (see rawsugar_social_tagging)

=Ch 4 Practice based theories= Introduction to Practice Based Theories (PBTs)

Communities of practice
[//copy from crosbie_thesis.doc//] > Introducing communities of practice (CoPs) > CoPs literature Concepts > legitimate_peripheral_participation > cops_navy_usa > concepts_of_community > virtual_communities > ethnography > CoPs field studies: Blacksmiths, Flute makers, Xerox technicians, Alinsu insurance workers, Waikato Ph.D students

Activity theory
> Activity theory > Activity theory & metadata

Actor-network theory
> Actor-network theory (ANT) > Concepts > ANT's ontological categories > lens (Orlikowski) > Cases: e.g. bridge_building

=Ch 5 Findings= Summary of findings

Analysis of key concepts and overlaps
> http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/boundary_objects > http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/people_roles > Technology roles > Concepts of community, people and technology > Methods of researching community and the user of online databases? > Knowledge management, e-learning, natural language, and social media inside the firewall SMIF Interrelated concepts and potential for a conversation > dialogue_about_emergent_practices_and_tools CoPs as boundary object

Application of this research
Outline of a proposal for further research

related_work
> community_informatics > social_informatics > further_research

=Ch 6 Conclusion & future work= > conclusion =Appendix= > Acknowledgements > Disclaimer =Bibliography= =Name index= =Subject index= 1162203151