Big Data, Little Data, No Data av Christine L. (Professor and Presidential Chair University of California Los Angeles) Borgman

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<b>An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.</b><p>“Big Data” is on the covers of <i>Science, Nature</i>, the <i>Economist</i>, and <i>Wired</i> magazines, on the front pages of the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and the <i>New York Times.</i> 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.</p><p>Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infras