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How Do I Know Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Jeff Alexander and Patrick Lambe
ReConnect15
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Propositions
• Communities/institutions classify all the time• Standards proliferate AND compete• Classifications of R&D – univalent or multivalent? Homogeneous and
optimised for purpose or heterogeneous and containing redundancies?• R&D as an ecosystem involving interacting agents/communities and
shared boundary objects• R&D as a value chain/ value cycle – artifacts and interpretations
produced, shared and recycled by many stakeholders at each stage in the value cycle
• How do classifications serve multivalent needs? Is standardization REALLY the way forward?
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Our Environments
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Taxonomy Functions
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R&D as an Ecosystem
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R&D as a Value Cycle
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R&D as a Value Cycle
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Propositions
• Communities/institutions classify all the time• Standards proliferate AND compete• Classifications of R&D – univalent or multivalent? Homogeneous and
optimised for purpose or heterogeneous and containing redundancies?• R&D as an ecosystem involving interacting agents/communities and
shared boundary objects• R&D as a value chain/ value cycle – artefacts and interpretations
produced, shared and recycled by many stakeholders at each stage in the value cycle
How do classifications serve multivalent needs? Is standardization REALLY the way forward?
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Recommendations• “Deep dive” into decision-making needs of multiple communities
– Policy-makers– Managers & executives– Analysts/assessors– General public
• Understand new classification tools & approaches– Management systems– Machine-based classification– Semantic interoperability
• Derive best practices from successes & failures– Importance of processes as well as products– Taxonomies for communication as well as description