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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460534003321

Autore

Borgman Christine L.

Titolo

Big data, little data, no data : scholarship in the networked world / / Christine L. Borgman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2015]

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2015]

ISBN

0-262-52991-2

0-262-32786-4

Descrizione fisica

XXV, 383 s : ill

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations

Research - Methodology

Research - Data processing

Information technology

Information storage and retrieval systems

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the media hyperbole, as 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. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines. She 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. 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. --