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Scholarship In The Networked World: Big Data, Little Data, No Data, Christine L. Borgman
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. …
Drowning In The Data Deluge: Digital Library Challenges For Asia (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman
Drowning In The Data Deluge: Digital Library Challenges For Asia (Keynote), Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
Scholarly communication no longer consists merely of papers and publications. Research data have become valuable objects to be captured, documented, and shared. Funding agencies are requiring "data management plans" for all new proposals. Libraries, universities, and research institutes are assessing how to manage those data in ways that can be leveraged for future value. But what are "data"? We are drowning in them without being able to define what they are. This talk will explore the shifting landscape of scholarly information, with special attention to how these shifts may influence digital libraries in Asia. Research is disseminated by many formal …
Research Data: Who Will Share What, With Whom, When, And Why?, Christine L. Borgman
Research Data: Who Will Share What, With Whom, When, And Why?, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
The deluge of scientific research data has excited the general public, as well as the scientific community, with the possibilities for better understanding of scientific problems, from climate to culture. For data to be available, researchers must be willing and able to share them. The policies of governments, funding agencies, journals, and university tenure and promotion committees also influence how, when, and whether research data are shared. Data are complex objects. Their purposes and the methods by which they are produced vary widely across scientific fields, as do the criteria for sharing them. To address these challenges, it is necessary …
The Digital Future Is Now: What The Humanities Can Learn From Escience, Christine L. Borgman
The Digital Future Is Now: What The Humanities Can Learn From Escience, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
As the digital humanities mature, their scholarship is taking on many characteristics of the sciences, becoming more data-intensive, information-intensive, distributed, multi-disciplinary, and collaborative. While few scholars in the humanities or arts would wish to be characterized as emulating scientists, they do envy the comparatively rich technical and resource infrastructure of the sciences. The interests of all scholars in the university align with respect to access to data, library resources, and computing infrastructure. However, the scholarly interests of the sciences and humanities diverge regarding research practices, sources of evidence, and degrees of control over those sources. This talk will explore the …
From Acting Locally To Thinking Globally: A Brief History Of Library Automation, Christine L. Borgman
From Acting Locally To Thinking Globally: A Brief History Of Library Automation, Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman
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