TY - JOUR KW - Emerging technologies KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Knowledge based KW - Knowledge based systems KW - Ordinary people KW - Real-world KW - Social productions AU - D. Smith AB - This article examines the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. It accepts the general case made by UNESCO, but urges greater attention to the real-world knowledge of ordinary people. The paper rejects taxonomies of knowledge based on metaphysical discussions of knowing. Instead, it argues for an approach to knowledge based on the social production of knowledge acts . It concludes by asserting that support for the diversity of social enactment of knowledge could have valuable outcomes in the form of new ways of understanding new and emerging technologies. DO - 10.1007/s00146-007-0105-6 M1 - 4 N2 - This article examines the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. It accepts the general case made by UNESCO, but urges greater attention to the real-world knowledge of ordinary people. The paper rejects taxonomies of knowledge based on metaphysical discussions of knowing. Instead, it argues for an approach to knowledge based on the social production of knowledge acts . It concludes by asserting that support for the diversity of social enactment of knowledge could have valuable outcomes in the form of new ways of understanding new and emerging technologies. SP - 421 EP - 428 TI - Networking real-world knowledge UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34347348332&doi=10.1007%2fs00146-007-0105-6&partnerID=40&md5=f3368a2eed7584b8541385bfbf37486d VL - 21 SN - 09515666 (ISSN) ER -