Digital Futures Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web

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  • Title: Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
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    • Authored by:: Susan Halford , Catherine Pope , Mark Weal
    • Year: 2013
    • Publication: Sociology
    • URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512453798
    • Citekey: halfordDigitalFuturesSociological2013
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    • Part of sociological sream of inquiry on Semantic Web and infrastructure. Cites @randallDistributedOntologyBuilding2011
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    • Promise of Semantic Web rests on being able to have unique resource identifiers (URIs). This relates to formality, although important to distinguish from compositionality
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      • But naming entities is far from straightforward. See, e.g., @bowkerSortingThingsOut2000 and @randallDistributedOntologyBuilding2011
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      • This has significant implications for how we think about precisely in what sense Z: Composability is necessary for synthesis, and how formality plays into it
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