ResearchDesignGrid_LP

Research Design Grid ||
 * figuring out methods
 * Working title: A cultural analysis of Semantic Web Information Infrastructures

Key words: information infrastructure, semantic Web, history of AI, thought styles ||
 * Aims? || Questions? || Data collection? || Emerging arguments? || Literatures? ||  ||
 * The aim of this research is to characterize the thought styles and worldviews that are becoming embedded in the design of the semantic Web. || Same as in hierarchy? || Interviews with those involved in Semantic Web discussions in W3C

Interviews with researchers that have long worked in knowledge representation in AI

Interviews with researchers that have long worked on building hypertext information infrastructure

Email archives for the development of OWL || Neats and scruffies represent two very different approaches to modeling information on the Web. Both embedded in infrastructure.

Information infrastructures are marked with lots of tension - disagreement that never fully gets worked out.

The Web has populated the information infrastructure with knowledge, leaving AI to figure out, not how best to formalize knowledge, but how best to structure it.

The ways that researchers determine which differences make a difference are quite ambiguous. || Science studies (Fleck, Fortun et. al, Golumbia)

History of AI (Agre, Adam, Forsythe, Suchman, Wilson)

Information infrastructure studies (Bowker, Edwards)

Derrida

Bateson ||^  ||
 * The aim of this research is to characterize how the affordances and language ideologies built into information infrastructures shape what information is accessible and discoverable on the Web vs. what is eclipsed. || Same as in hierarchy? || Ethnography of data structures

Critical experiments? || The Semantic Web is structuring information in such a way that marginal voices are getting eclipsed. || Language theories (Cornell, de Lauretis, Asad)

Information infrastructure studies (Star, Bowker)

Science studies (Rheinberger, Haraway)

Critical Code Studies (Marino, Chun) ||^  ||