Talk:Boundary object

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Object could be more than information[edit]

As I read the first sentence of this description, there seems to be a bit too much emphasis on information. Boundary objects are often applied in the context of information and information systems. However, a fence around some property would also be an boundary object, in that people recognize that it's a demarcation of land ... and that's not just informational, it's physical. Daviding (talk) 21:09, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Object examples?[edit]

There is not a single example of a "boundary object" on this page. Makes it difficult to fully understand what they might be or how the term is commonly used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.115.226.11 (talk) 03:02, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just added a sentence listing a few examples of boundary objects discussed in the original Star and Griesemar article. Hopefully, this makes the concept a little bit clearer. Svtlzr2 (talk) 20:15, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

introduction of concept?[edit]

The current wiki version claims that the notion was introduced in the 1989 paper. The authors reference the concept, however, to another source by Star (endnote 15): Susan Leigh Star, 'The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving', in M. Hubs and L. Gasser (eds), Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence 3 (Menlo Park, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1989). This seems to call for corrections of the opening of the wiki page. Ingmar.lippert (talk) 15:34, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please do make the correction. Bondegezou (talk) 21:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

done Ingmar.lippert (talk) 19:58, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused[edit]

The article presently begins, "In sociology, a boundary object is information, such as specimens, field notes, and maps, used in different ways by different communities." As far as I can tell, a map carries information. It isn't itself information. If someone can't read the map, you can give them the map without giving them the information that it carries. Omphaloscope talk 23:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]