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scholarship in the networked world

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Big data, little data, no data

scholarship in the networked world

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"Big data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, the Economist, and Wired magazines, on the front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data - because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreoever, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines. Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure - an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships. After laying out the premises of her investigation - six "provocations" meant to inspire discussion about the uses of data in scholarship - Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy. To manage and exploit data over the long term, Borgman argues, requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures; at stake is the future of scholarship. -- from dust jacket.

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The MIT Press
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English
Pages
383

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Table of Contents

Provocations
What are data?
Data scholarship
Data diversity
Data scholarship in the sciences
Data scholarship in the social sciences
Data scholarship in the humanities
Sharing, releasing, and reusing data
Credit, attribution, and discovery of data
What to keep and why to keep them.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-360) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
004
Library of Congress
AZ195 .B66 2015, AZ195.B66 2015

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Pagination
pages cm
Number of pages
383

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Open Library
OL26887065M
Internet Archive
bigdatalittledat0000borg
ISBN 13
9780262028561
LCCN
2014017233
OCLC/WorldCat
894491357

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