Integrating tagging: tagging as integration Mark R. Lindner Visiting Serials Cataloger

Outline Quick overview of Integrationism “Community” as macrosocial Towards integration Tagging as integration

Integrationism theory of linguistics and communication opposed to segregational accounts Roy Harris, Professor Emeritus, Oxford

Time is the key factor in human communication Our senses are integrated across, through and in time.

Constraints on human communication Biomechanical Macrosocial Circumstantial

The Sign “A sign is integrational in the sense that it typically involves the contextualized application of biomechanical skills within a certain macrosocial framework, thereby contributing to the integration of activities which would otherwise remain unintegrated.” Harris, R. (1995) Signs of writing, pp

“Community” is the macrosocial Proficiency Practice Conformity

Towards integration Tennis (2006) Sen, et. al. (2006) Kipp (2007) Campbell (2007) Kipp (2008)

Tagging as integration Individual tagging Community tagging

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Thank you! Mark R. Lindner Visiting Serials Cataloger and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Certificate of Advanced Study candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC