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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
Data Infrastructures in Biology
Biology has been dealing with the problems of "big data" for several decades. Even before the Human Genome Project began, biologists struggled to cope
Endangerment, Biodiversity, and Culture
The notion of endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values, and practices dealing with entities threatened by disappearance, and
Biodiversity, Saving Biodiversity: Expert Practices and Public Engagements in Conservation Biology
Conservation biology is an unusual science in that it was founded on explicitly ethical objectives. Global biodiversity is considered to be a good in
Workshop | Jun 23-Jun 24, 2017 | 09:30 to 15:30
Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
MoreWorkshop | Jun 23-Jun 24, 2017 | 09:30 to 15:30
Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
MoreArchiving Indigeneity: Language Documentation and the Pragmatics of Decolonization
Over the past 120 years, language has become subject to archiving. One consequence is that today, languages and linguistic diversity, like species of
Circulation in Nineteenth-Century France: Blood, Water, and Railroads
The term "circulation" was widely used in French urban planning from the 1850s onwards to designate the flow of people, goods, information, traffic, c
Archiving the Doomed. Fashioning a Public Science of Conservation
During his stay Jean-Baptiste Gouyon investigated ARKive, an Internet database of images and recordings of animals, the associated claims to knowledge