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Data Sharing: A Problem Of Supply Or Of Demand?, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data by requiring data management plans and data sharing. Policy makers have paid surprisingly little attention to the demand for data. It stands to reason that if scholars actively sought data for reuse, then more data would be shared. The few studies that exist on the demand for extant data suggest that researchers rarely are asked for their data and rarely seek data from other investigators. Many investigators have difficulty imagining who might want their data or for what purposes they might …

Scholarship In The Networked World: Big Data, Little Data, No Data, Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman

Scholars are expected to publish the results of their work in journals, books, and other venues. Now they are being asked to publish their data as well, which marks a fundamental transition in scholarly communication. Data are not shiny objects that are easily exchanged. Rather, they are fuzzy and poorly bounded entities. The enthusiasm for "big data" is obscuring the complexity and diversity of data and of data practices across the disciplines. Data flows are uneven– abundant in some areas and sparse in others, easily or rarely shared. Open access and open data are contested concepts that are often conflated. …

Idre Proposal: Ucla Data Registry System, Christine L. Borgman, Todd Grappone, Gary Strong, Jeffrey Goldman, Jillian Wallis

Christine L. Borgman

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Children's Searching Behavior On Browsing And Keyword Online Catalogs: The Science Library Catalog Project, Christine L. Borgman, Sandra G. Hirsh, Andrea L. Gallagher, Virginia A. Walter

Christine L. Borgman