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Biodiversity Datadiversity
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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bowker, G. C.
- Venue
- Social Studies of Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-10
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 643-683
- ISSN
- 0036-8539 (ISSN-L)
- 0306-3127
- 1460-3659
- OpenAlex
- W4256165433
- Cited by
- 522
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 12.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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