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title: R- Digital Futures Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
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author: Susan Halford, Catherine Pope, Mark Weal
year: 2013
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- #references
    - 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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    - #lit-context
        - Part of sociological sream of inquiry on [[Semantic Web]] and [[infrastructure]]. Cites [[@randallDistributedOntologyBuilding2011]]
    - #[[📝 lit-notes]]
        - Promise of [[Semantic Web]] rests on being able to have unique resource identifiers ([[URIs]]). This relates to [[formality]], although important to distinguish from [[compositionality]]
            - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2FM3PpiGtvzg.png?alt=media&token=e0783be4-c6dd-40fa-b76f-0805b1eb42b7)
            - But naming entities is far from straightforward. See, e.g., [[@bowkerSortingThingsOut2000]] and [[@randallDistributedOntologyBuilding2011]]
                - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2FzYhdbtf4dB.png?alt=media&token=e9d60c6d-358e-4620-880d-e7cdf6360d82)
            - 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
                - #[[Z: [[context]] and [[formality]] are in tension]]