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Futher research
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I this research I attempted to find out //why// PBTs should be used to investigate online tagging in its various forms, the next stage perhaps should by //how// to use PBTs investigate online tagging as a knowledge sharing practice. One key question, in this regard, is should PBTs be used to develop a lens, or a set of ontological categories? (Cordella, & Shaikh, 2006, forthcoming)

The notions of community driven metadata, the pragmatic Web, and the sociosemantic Web may be many months or even years from influencing the development of applicatons or 'everyday' users, depending on how quickly users in online communinities get to hear about and try the tools supposedly on offer.

One suggstion for further research is to consider a narrow list of authors, journals, publishers, and research institutions worthy of further investigation. Another might be to focus on tools, in particular, with examples like the omni_case_study, IBM's dogear and other social media inside the firewall SMIF. Still another avenue to persue might be to ask the developers of community and social networking portals what they think of simple appraoches to ontologies, such as vCard and FOAF and related visions for an easy to use semantics.

Places to look & learn I have considered many authors, journals, publishers, and research institutions, and bibliographies worthy of further investigation:

Authors
e.g.
 * Aldo de Moor because of his interest in the pragmatic web, simple ontologies, virtual communities, and blogging as conversational practice (& see findings).
 * Sasha Barab because of his publications and research on CoPs, activity_theory|activity theory]], and communities in the design and teaching of e-learning.

Research institutions
e.g.
 * DERI because of its previous work on semantic community web portals and community driven metadata management

Bibliographies

 * John D. Smith's //Bibliography on communities of practice// at [|http://cofpractice-biblio.wikispaces.com/]