Big Data, Little Data, or No Data?

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Lecture by Prof. Dr Christine L. Borgman (Center for Knowledge Infrastructures at UCLA).

<h1>Big Data, Little Data, or No Data? Scholarship, Stewardship, and Humanities Research</h1>While the humanities have caught the “big data” wave, “little data” remains the norm in those many domains where evidence is scarce and labor-intensive to acquire. Until recently, data was considered part of the process of scholarship, essential but largely invisible. In the “big data” era, data have become valuable products to be captured, shared, reused, and stewarded for the long term. They also have become contentious intellectual property to be protected, especially in the humanities. Public policy leans toward open access to research data, but rarely provides the public investment necessary to sustain access. Data practices are local, varying from field to field, individual to individual, and country to country. As the number and variety of research partners expands, so do the difficulties of sharing, reusing, and sustaining access to data. Until the larger questions of knowledge infrastructures and stewardship are addressed by research communities, “no data” may become the norm for many fields. This talk will explore the stakes and stakeholders in research data, in interdisciplinary humanities research, and implications for policy and practice, drawing upon the presenter’s book, Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (MIT Press, 2015), and subsequent research.<a href="http://www.christineborgman.info/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Christine L. Borgman</a>, Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the <a href="https://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Knowledge Infrastructures</a> at UCLA, is the author of more than 250 <a href="https://escholarship.org/search/?q=author%3ABorgman%2C%20Christine%20L" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">publications</a> in information studies, computer science, and communication. These include three books from MIT Press: <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=big-data" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World</a> (2015), winner of the 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (<a href="https://proseawards.com/winners/2016-award-winners/#body" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PROSE Award</a>) in Computing and Information Sciences; <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11333" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet</a> (2007); and <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=9661" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World</a> (2000). The latter two books won the <a href="http://www.asis.org/awards/book.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Best Information Science Book of the Year</a> award from the <a href="https://www.asist.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)</a>. Professor Borgman is a Fellow of the <a href="http://www.aaas.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> and of the <a href="http://www.acm.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Association for Computing Machinery</a>. Her activities in information policy include service on the Advisory Board of the <a href="http://epic.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)</a>; the University of California <a href="http://ucop.edu/privacy-initiative/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Privacy and Information Security Initiative</a>; UC <a href="http://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/committees/ucacc/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Academic Computing and Communications Committee</a> (Vice Chair / Chair); UC <a href="https://security.ucop.edu/about/cyber-risk-governance/index.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cyber Risk Governance Committee</a>; UCLA <a href="http://privacyboard.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Board on Privacy and Data Protection</a>; and UCLA <a href="http://evc.ucla.edu/reports/DGTF-report.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Data Governance Task Force</a> (Co-Chair). Prof. Borgman earned a PhD in Communication from Stanford University, an MLS in information science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in mathematics from Michigan State University. She also holds the title of University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Emerita.This is the closing lecture in the lecture series &quot;<a href="https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/data/new-horizons-confronting-digital-turn-humanities" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities</a>&quot; organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).

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