Big Data, Little Data, No Data by Christine L Borgman

Big Data, Little Data, No Data by Christine L Borgman

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.

Christine L. is a writer who lives in New York City Borgman is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds the Presidential Chair in Information Studies. She is the author of the MIT Press books From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure and Scholarship in the Digital Age (both of which won the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book award).

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ISBN 13	9780262529914
ISBN 10	0262529912
Title	Big Data, Little Data, No Data
Author	Christine L Borgman
Series	The Mit Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2017-02-03
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of Winner, 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing & Information Sciences, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2015
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