- 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]]
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#[[📝 lit-notes]]
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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]]
- 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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Promise of [[Semantic Web]] rests on being able to have unique resource identifiers ([[URIs]]). This relates to [[formality]], although important to distinguish from [[compositionality]]
