Towards a Theory of Information

Lenski, Wolfgang

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“…In this paper, we take a view different from the common description of personomy which would classify it as in Sign (7). We agree with one of World Wide Web Consortium's social tagging proposals that personomy should be regarded as a concept scheme that can be reused across various systems.…”

Section: Sign (4) -Informational Indexical Tokenmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…First, we define a sign in terms of its triadic relations. Next, we apply the principle of Peirce's three universal categories, and Morris's three dimensions of signs (namely, the syntactical, semantic and pragmatic dimensions), implicated by their relation to information science [7], to social tagging. Then, in Section 5, we use Peirce's 10 classes of signs to describe the 10 classes of social tagging.…”

Section: Problems Of Social Taggingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Personal tagging shares some of the characteristics of personal indexical tagging, i.e. Sign (7); however, the symbolic Object of Sign ( 9) makes its Representation mostly a statement of fact. If Sign ( 9) is seen as personal tagging, its Replica is also a personomy, Sign (4), of a special kind.…”

Section: Sign (9) -Informational Symbolic Typementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In summary, when considering how social tagging corresponds to online communications, we have six Types in Signs ( 5), ( 6), ( 7), ( 8), ( 9) and ( 10), which provide general tagging rules for online communications; three Tokens in Signs (2), ( 3) and ( 4), which represent the actual existence of tagging related to social communication; and one Mark in Sign (1), which signifies the possible concept of social tagging in online communication process. Likewise, with regard to what Object the tags refer to, we rely on an analysis of the following components: three Icons in Signs (1), ( 2) and (5) to determine the characteristic likeness or similarity of the Objects that the tags refer to; four Indexes in Signs (3), ( 4), ( 6) and (7), which relate to the existence of the indicated Objects and the communication uses; and three Symbols in Signs (8), ( 9) and (10), which are used for certain laws or rules. Similarly, for questions about who the main interpreters are and why they engage in tagging, the answers fall into the Interpretant category of the signs.…”

Section: Summary Of the 10 Classes Of Signsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework

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2009

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One of the recent Web developments has focused on the opportunities it presents for social tagging through user participation and collaboration. As a result, social tagging has changed the traditional online communication process. The interpretation of tagging between humans and machines may create new problems if essential questions about how social tagging corresponds to online communications, what objects the tags refer to, who the interpreters are, and why they are engaged are not explored systematically. Since all reasoning is an interpretation of social tagging among humans, tags, and machines, it is a complex issue that calls for deep reflection. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the potential problems raised by social tagging through the framework of C. S. Peirce's semiotics. We find that general phenomena of social tagging can be well classified by Peirce's ten classes of signs for reasoning. This suggests that regarding social tagging as a sign and systematically analyzing the interpretation are positively associated with the ten classes of signs. Peircean semiotics can be used to examine the dynamics and determinants of tagging; hence, the various uses of this categorization schema may have implications for the design and development of information systems and Web applications.

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Section: Sign (4) -Informational Indexical Tokenmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: Problems Of Social Taggingmentioning

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Section: Sign (9) -Informational Symbolic Typementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summary Of the 10 Classes Of Signsmentioning

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A New Approach to Computing Using Informons and Holons: Towards a Theory of Computing Science

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The state of computing science and, particularly, software engineering and knowledge engineering is generally considered immature. The best starting point for achieving a mature engineering discipline is a solid scientific theory, and the primary reason behind the immaturity in these fields is precisely that computing science still has no such agreed upon underlying theory. As theories in other fields of science do, this paper formally establishes the fundamental elements and postulates making up a first attempt at a theory in this field, considering the features and peculiarities of computing science. The fundamental elements of this approach are informons and holons, and it is a general and comprehensive theory of software engineering and knowledge engineering that related disciplines (e.g., information systems) can particularise and/or extend to take benefit from it (Lakatos' concepts of core theory and protective belt theories).

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Towards a Theory of Information

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Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework

Social tagging, online communication, and Peircean semiotics: a conceptual framework

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