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A Natural History of Data
A Natural History of Data examines the history of practices and rationalities surrounding data in the natural sciences between 1800 and the present. O
Big Data and the Reconstruction of Linguistic Prehistory
In 2001, an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers joined forces to establish the Evolution of Human Languages (EHL) project at the S
The Infrastructures of Sequence Data in Biology
This project provided two examples of the very specific ways in which data is tied to the technologies and practices of computing and information tech
Names and Numbers: Classical Natural History and Its Archives, 1758–1859
According to a famous formula going back to Immanuel Kant, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw the transition from natural history
Publications, Müller-Wille, S. (2015). "Linnaeus and the Four Corners of the World." In K. Coles et al. (Eds), The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Data and Material Culture: Finds and Specimens as “Raw Archival Data”
Things—for example specimens, artifacts, trophies, instruments, commodities, religious or literary texts—all travel. They do so by transferring ideas
Data Not Good Enough to See the Light of the Day: Shifting Boundaries Between Private and Public Experimental Data
The current era of "big data" and "data-driven science" is a result, not only of technological innovations, but also of a number of deep epistemologic
Databases and Data Communities in Animal Ecology
To generate a massive archive of data, one must often first convince a large number of scientists that they have more to gain by sharing their data th
Database of Dreams: Social Science’s Forgotten Archive of How to Be Human
This project (published 2015 by Yale University Press) tells the story of a vast yet almost entirely forgotten social scientific archive. Built in 195
Publications, Lemov, R. (2015). Database of Dreams: Social Science’s Forgotten Archive of How To Be Human. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Social Data in the Interwar Period
This project looked at the proliferation of social data-gathering organisations in the interwar period. It began with an attempt to contextualise Mass
Data Processing, Data Management, and Data Archiving in Twentieth-Century Astronomy
Starting in the 1960s, astronomers’ view of the sky shifted from an analog perspective in which data was recorded using photographic plates and analog