Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World

摘要: "Big Data" is on the covers of Science, Nature, Economist, and Wired magazines, front pages Wall Street Journal New York Times. But despite media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination data scholarly research, having right usually better than more data; little can be just valuable big data. In many cases, there are no -- because relevant don't exist, cannot found, or not available. Moreover, sharing difficult, incentives to do so minimal, practices vary widely across disciplines. Borgman, an often-cited authority communication, argues that have value meaning isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure ecology people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, relationships. After laying premises her investigation six "provocations" meant inspire discussion about uses scholarship offers case studies sciences, social humanities, then considers implications findings for practice research policy. To manage exploit over long term, argues, requires massive investment infrastructures; at stake future scholarship.