"On the value of ""useless data"": Infrastructures, biodiversity, and policy."

Slota, Steve; Bowker, Geoffrey C.

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Title

"On the value of ""useless data"": Infrastructures, biodiversity, and policy."

Author(s)

• Slota, Steve
• Bowker, Geoffrey C.

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• history
• theory and philosophy of information
• information policy and open access
• infrastructure studies

Abstract

As the ability to meaningfully process increasingly large quantities of data has improved, the need for systems to support the aggregation and subsequent use of disparate smaller datasets is correspondingly greater. The GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is just one such project among a larger group seeking to aggregate the smaller, focused, and disparate sources of information generated for the work of science. GBIF is simultaneously an effort to coordinate and aggregate digital species occurrence data and digitize natural history collections into a single global-scale resource for biodiversity work. The basis for this paper is a critical study of the GBIF database and data portal as a socio-technical system.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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