Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Boundary object

Boundary object: "Boundary object
Boundary object is a concept originally introduced by Susan L. Star and James R.  Griesemer (1989) to refer to objects that serve an interface between different communities of practice. Boundary objects are an entity shared by several different communities but viewed or used differently by each of them.
 
The concept has, for example, been applied on classification systems (Bowker & Star, 2000).
 
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