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Follow The Data: How Astronomers Use And Reuse Data (Poster), Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Laura Wynholds, Sharon Traweek
Follow The Data: How Astronomers Use And Reuse Data (Poster), Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Laura Wynholds, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
We analyze the people and infrastructure involved in the building, sustaining, and curation of large astronomy sky surveys. Our research assesses what new infrastructures, divisions of labor, knowledge, and expertise are necessary for the proper care of data. Between May 2011- February 2012, we conducted fourteen interviews employing Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data use as the focus. SDSS is a multi-faceted, multi-phased data-driven telescope project with hundreds of collaborators and thousands of users of the open data. The Follow the Data interview protocol identifies a single publication authored by each interviewee and uses it as a lens looking backward …
Follow The Data: How Astronomers Use And Reuse Data, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Laura Wynholds, Sharon Traweek
Follow The Data: How Astronomers Use And Reuse Data, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Laura Wynholds, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
We analyze the people and infrastructure involved in the building, sustaining, and curation of large astronomy sky surveys. Our research assesses what new infrastructures, divisions of labor, knowledge, and expertise are necessary for the proper care of data. Between May 2011- February 2012, we conducted fourteen interviews employing Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data use as the focus. SDSS is a multi-faceted, multi-phased data-driven telescope project with hundreds of collaborators and thousands of users of the open data. The Follow the Data interview protocol identifies a single publication authored by each interviewee and uses it as a lens looking backward …
Who’S Got The Data? Interdependencies In Science And Technology Collaborations, Christine L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, Matthew S. Mayernik
Who’S Got The Data? Interdependencies In Science And Technology Collaborations, Christine L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, Matthew S. Mayernik
Christine L. Borgman
Science and technology always have been interdependent, but never more so than with today’s highly instrumented data collection practices. We report on a long-term study of collaboration between environmental scientists (biology, ecology, marine sciences), computer scientists, and engineering research teams as part of a five-university distributed science and technology research center devoted to embedded networked sensing. The science and technology teams go into the field with mutual interests in gathering scientific data. “Data” are constituted very differently between the research teams. What are data to the science teams may be context to the technology teams, and vice versa. Interdependencies between …
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices [Presentation Slides], Wynholds A. Laura, Jillian C. Wallis, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Sharon Traweek
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices [Presentation Slides], Wynholds A. Laura, Jillian C. Wallis, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Sands, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
Powerpoint Presentation from the 2012 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL).
Wynholds, L. A., Wallis, J. C., Borgman, C. L., Sands, A., & Traweek, S. (2012). Data, data use, and scientific inquiry (p. 19). ACM Press. doi:10.1145/2232817.2232822
Syllabus For Data, Data Practices, And Data Curation Part 2; Spring 2012, Christine L. Borgman
Syllabus For Data, Data Practices, And Data Curation Part 2; Spring 2012, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
No abstract provided.
Local Or Global? Making Sense Of The Data Sharing Imperative, Christine L. Borgman
Local Or Global? Making Sense Of The Data Sharing Imperative, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
The deluge of research data has excited researchers, policy makers and the general public with the possibilities for exploring problems from climate to culture. Yet the very definition of “data” is contested, and determining whether something is “independently understandable” is problematic. Data rarely are simple objects that can be easily shared; rather they embody the epistemological perspectives of their creators/collectors/producers/authors. This talk will explore the matches and mismatches of motivations, interests and incentives of stakeholders in research data.
Research Data, Reproducibility, And Curation, Christine L. Borgman
Research Data, Reproducibility, And Curation, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
No abstract provided.
Reproducibility: Gold Or Fool’S Gold In Digital Social Research?, Christine Borgman
Reproducibility: Gold Or Fool’S Gold In Digital Social Research?, Christine Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Data sharing has become a core tenet of science policy in the U.K., U.S., and elsewhere. Among the rationales for sharing data is improving the ability to reproduce or to replicate research. Reproducibility is an oft-stated “gold standard” for science, yet it is a problematic rationale for sharing research data. Sociologists of science have described the difficulties of verifying, let alone reproducing, scientific results, since the 1970s. While most sciences are experiencing a data deluge, the characteristics and practices associated with data vary widely, with different requirements for replication. Reproducibility concerns underlie peer review, identification of fraud, bio-security, and publication …
Syllabus For Data, Data Practices, And Data Curation Part 1; Winter 2012, Christine Borgman
Syllabus For Data, Data Practices, And Data Curation Part 1; Winter 2012, Christine Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
No abstract provided.
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices, Laura Wynholds, Jillian Wallis, Christine Borgman, Ashley Sands, Sharon Traweek
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices, Laura Wynholds, Jillian Wallis, Christine Borgman, Ashley Sands, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
Data are proliferating far faster than they can be captured, managed, or stored. What types of data are most likely to be used and reused, by whom, and for what purposes? Answers to these questions will inform information policy and the design of digital libraries.
We report findings from semi-structured interviews and field observations to investigate characteristics of data use and reuse and how those characteristics vary within and between scientific communities. The two communities studied are researchers at the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and users of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. The data practices of …
Unearthing The Infrastructure: Humans And Sensors In Field-Based Scientific Research, Matthew S. Mayernik, Jillian C. Wallis, Christine L. Borgman
Unearthing The Infrastructure: Humans And Sensors In Field-Based Scientific Research, Matthew S. Mayernik, Jillian C. Wallis, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Distributed sensing systems for studying scientific phenomena are critical applications of information technologies. By embedding computational intelligence in the environment of study, sensing systems allow researchers to study phenomena at spatial and temporal scales that were previously impossible to achieve. We present an ethnographic study of field research practices among researchers in the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center devoted to developing wireless sensing systems for scientific and social applications. Using the concepts of boundary objects and trading zones, we trace the processes of collaborative research around sensor technology development and adoption …
Why Are The Attribution And Citation Of Scientific Data Important? In: Uhlir, Paul And Cohen, Daniel (Eds.). Report From Developing Data Attribution And Citation Practices And Standards: An International Symposium And Workshop., Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Keynote address from the Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: An International Symposium and Workshop in Berkeley, CA on 22 August 2011. Keynote speech is contained within the forthcoming 2012 Report from Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: An International Symposium and Workshop published by the National Academy of Sciences.
Preferred Citation: Borgman, C.L. (2012, forthcoming). Why are the attribution and citation of scientific data important? In: Uhlir, Paul and Cohen, Daniel (eds.). Report from Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: An International Symposium and Workshop. National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Research Data …
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices, Christine L. Borgman
Data, Data Use, And Scientific Inquiry: Two Case Studies Of Data Practices, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Data are proliferating far faster than they can be captured, managed, or stored. What types of data are most likely to be used and reused, by whom, and for what purposes? Answers to these questions will inform information policy and the design of digital libraries. We report findings from semi-structured interviews and field observations to investigate characteristics of data use and reuse and how those characteristics vary within and between scientific communities. The two communities studied are researchers at the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and users of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. The data practices of …
Surf’S Up: Riding The Big Data Wave (Poster), Ashley Sands, Christine L. Borgman, Sharon Traweek
Surf’S Up: Riding The Big Data Wave (Poster), Ashley Sands, Christine L. Borgman, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
We use ethnographic methods to follow the builders and users of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), known as “the human genome project of astronomy.” SDSS was designed as an open data project and it is among the most successful big data projects in science. We are spotting the indicators of how well astronomers are riding the big data wave - and when they are wiping out - with consequences for other creators, users, analysts, managers, and funders of big data systems. http://ipp.oii.ox.ac.uk/2012/programme-2012/poster-session/ashley-sands-christine-l-borgman-laura-a
The Conundrum Of Sharing Research Data (2011 Pre-Publication Manuscript), Christine L. Borgman
The Conundrum Of Sharing Research Data (2011 Pre-Publication Manuscript), Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
New methods and instrumentation are producing an unprecedented deluge of research data. The volume of data, combined with new means of distribution and mining, has excited funding agencies, policy makers, and the general public with promises of discovery and innovation. Many stakeholders now expect data to be released, yet sharing is common in only a few fields such as astronomy and genomics. In other fields, some researchers share their data routinely, others never share their data, and most appear willing to share some of their data some of the time. Data sharing is thus a conundrum – “an intricate and …
Preface, Christine L. Borgman
Data, Data Use, And Inquiry: A New Point Of View On Data Curation, Jillian C. Wallis, Laura A. Wynholds, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley E. Sands, Sharon Traweek
Data, Data Use, And Inquiry: A New Point Of View On Data Curation, Jillian C. Wallis, Laura A. Wynholds, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley E. Sands, Sharon Traweek
Christine L. Borgman
Data are proliferating far faster than they can be captured, managed, or stored. What types of data are most likely to be used and reused, by whom, and for what purposes? Answers to these questions will inform information policy and the design of digital libraries.
We report findings from semi-structured interviews and field observations to investigate characteristics of data use and reuse and how those characteristics vary within and between scientific communities. The two communities studied are the researchers at the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and users of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. We found that …