Biodiversity Datadiversity Export

@article{citeulike:311249, abstract = {Biodiversity is a data-intense science, drawing as it does on data from a large number of disciplines in order to build up a coherent picture of the extent and trajectory of life on earth. This paper argues that as sets of heterogeneous databases are made to converge, there is a layering of values into the emergent infrastructure. It is argued that this layering process is relatively irreversible, and that it operates simultaneously at a very concrete level (fields in a database) and at a very abstract one (the coding of the relationship between the disciplines and the production of a general ontology). Finally, it is maintained that science studies as a discipline is able to (and should) make a significant contribution to the design of robust and flexible databases which recognize this performative character of infrastructure.}, author = {Bowker, Geoffrey C.}, citeulike-article-id = {311249}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/285760}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/285760}, doi = {10.2307/285760}, journal = {Social Studies of Science}, keywords = {arcc\_infrastructure, cultural\_critique, infrastructure, sociology, sts}, number = {5}, pages = {643--683}, posted-at = {2006-06-02 17:22:22}, priority = {0}, title = {Biodiversity Datadiversity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/285760}, volume = {30}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:311249 L3 - citeulike-article-id:311249 N2 - Biodiversity is a data-intense science, drawing as it does on data from a large number of disciplines in order to build up a coherent picture of the extent and trajectory of life on earth. This paper argues that as sets of heterogeneous databases are made to converge, there is a layering of values into the emergent infrastructure. It is argued that this layering process is relatively irreversible, and that it operates simultaneously at a very concrete level (fields in a database) and at a very abstract one (the coding of the relationship between the disciplines and the production of a general ontology). Finally, it is maintained that science studies as a discipline is able to (and should) make a significant contribution to the design of robust and flexible databases which recognize this performative character of infrastructure. IS - 5 JF - Social Studies of Science EP - 683 TI - Biodiversity Datadiversity VL - 30 SP - 643 KW - arcc_infrastructure KW - cultural_critique KW - infrastructure KW - sociology KW - sts AU - Bowker, Geoffrey PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/285760 ER -