Publications > Scientific Data Practices

Research on how scientists and their partners in computer science and engineering produce, use, and manage data is listed here.  Issues of social practices, technical architectures for data repositories, collaboration, and science policy are addressed here.  Most of this research is affiliated with the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing.

 

Recent Publications

Borgman, C. L. (2007). Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Mayernik, M.S., Wallis, J.C., Borgman, C.L., Pepe, A. (in press). Addng Context to Content: The CENS Deployment Center. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [pdf]

Wallis, J.C., Borgman, C.L., Mayernik, M.S., Pepe, A. (in press). Know thy sensor: Trust, data quality, and data integrity in scientific digital libraries. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2007, Budapest, Hungary. [pdf]

Pepe, A., Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C., Mayernik, M.S. (in press). Knitting a fabric of sensor data resources. ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks Workshop on Data Sharing & Interoperability, Cambridge, MA. [pdf]

Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C., Mayernik, M.S., Pepe, A. (2007). Drowning in data: Digital library architecture to support scientistific use of embedded sensor networks. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007, Vancouver, BC. [pdf]

Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C., Enyedy, N. (in print). Little science confronts the data deluge: Habitat ecology, embedded sensor networks, and digital libraries. International Journal on Digital Libraries. [pdf]

Wallis, J.C., Milojevic, S., Borgman, C.L. & Sandoval, W.A. (2006). The special case of scientific data sharing with education. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2006, Austin, TX. [link] [pdf] [ppt]

Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C., Enyedy, N. (2006). Building digital libraries for scientific data: An exploratory study of data pratices in habitat ecology. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2006, Alicante, Spain. [pdf] [ppt]

Borgman, C.L. (2006). What can studies of e-Learning teach us about e-Research? Some findings from digital library research. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. [pdf]

Shankar, K. (2003). Scientific data archiving: the state of the art in information, data, and metadata management. [pdf]

Recent Presentations

Christine L. Borgman (2007) Internet Search and Scientific Information Practices. 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA. [ppt]

Christine L. Borgman (2007) International and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Cyberinfrastructure: A case study with embedded networked sensor technology. 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA. [ppt]

Christine L. Borgman (2006) Personal Digital Libraries and Scientific Data. Annual Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting 2006, Austin, TX. Panel on Personal Digital Collections. [ppt]

Jillian C. Wallis, Christine L. Borgman, Noel Enyedy, & Matthew Mayernik (2006) CENS: A Test-bed for the Study of Scientific Data Management. American Society for Information Science & Technology 2006, Austin, TX. Panel on Managing Scientific Data for Long-term Access and Use. [ppt]

Christine L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, Noel Enyedy, & Matthew Mayernik (2006) Capturing Habitat Ecology in Reusable Forms. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science 2006, Vancouver, Canada. [ppt]

Borgman, C.L., Wallis, J.C. & Enyedy, N. (2006). Building Digital Libraries for Scientific Data: An exploratory study of data practices in habitat ecology.European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 2006, Alicante, Spain. [pdf] [ppt]

Borgman, C. L. (2005). Disciplinary Differences in E-Research: An information Perspective. Keynote Talk. First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, Manchester, UK. National Center for e-Social Science. [link]

Borgman, C. L. (2005). The Social Embeddness of Embedded Networked Sensing. MIT-OII Workshop on New Approaches to Research on the Social Implications of Emerging Technologies, University of Oxford, University of Oxford. Oxford Internet Institute. [link]

Borgman, C. L. (2004). The Interaction of Community and Individual Practices in the Design of a Digital Library. International Symposium on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Communities in Networked Information Society, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. [link]