Big data, little data, no data scholarship in the networked world

• Main Author: Borgman, Christine L. 1951- (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2015
• Subjects: Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations; Research > Methodology; Research > Data processin; Information technology; Information storage and retrieval systems; Cyberinfrastructure
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"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 da...

Table of Contents:

• Provocations
• What are data?
• Data scholarship
• Data diversity
• Data scholarship in the sciences
• Data scholarship in the social sciences
• Data scholarship in the humanities
• Sharing, releasing, and reusing data
• Credit, attribution, and discovery of data
• What to keep and why to keep them