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Boundaries and accountabilities in computer-assisted ethnobotany

Christie, Michael J. (2006). Boundaries and accountabilities in computer-assisted ethnobotany. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning,1(3):285-296.

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Title Boundaries and accountabilities in computer-assisted ethnobotany
Author Christie, Michael J.
Journal Name Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
Publication Date 2006
Volume Number 1
Issue Number 3
ISSN 1793-2068   (check CDU catalogue open catalogue search in new window)
Start Page 285
End Page 296
Total Pages 12
Place of Publication Singapore
Publisher World Scientific
Field of Research 1399 - Other Education
1608 - Sociology
HERDC Category C1 - Journal Article (DEST)
Abstract Designing software alongside ethnobotanists and Indigenous owners and practitioners of traditional knowledge, brings to light a range of issues which expose some of the assumptions underlying both Western ethnobotany and software design. In collaborating over the development of software to facilitate the use of digital objects in knowledge work, issues of knowledge politics, accountability, ontologies, and epistemologies arise. This paper discusses the ways these issues, in a particular context, led to the development of a flexible, ontologically flat, epistemologically open, ethnobotanical software design.
Keywords Traditional knowledge
ethnobotany
software design
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793206806000214   (check subscription with CDU E-Gateway service for CDU Staff and Students  check subscription with CDU E-Gateway in new window)
 
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