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

• Autore: Borgman Christine L. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: ©2015; Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: XXV, 383 s : ill
• Disciplina: 004
• Soggetto topico: Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations; Research - Methodology; Research - Data processing; Information technology; Information storage and retrieval systems; Cyberinfrastructure
• Soggetto non controllato: Store datamengder - Informasjonsteknologi - Datautvinning - Forskningsmetoder - Cyberspace; INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy; INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies; INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.; "'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. Moreover, 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Big data, little data, no data
• ISBN: 0-262-32787-2; 0-262-52991-2; 0-262-32786-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808914203321
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