Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

Christine L. Borgman

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2007-10-01
  • 售價: $1,230
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,205
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 360
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262026198
  • ISBN-13: 9780262026192
  • 相關分類: Information-management雲端運算
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Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy changes that will have the most lasting effect on the scholarly enterprise. In Scholarship in the Digital Age, Christine Borgman explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century.

Borgman describes the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings. No framework for the impending "data deluge" exists comparable to that for publishing. Analyzing scholarly practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, Borgman compares each discipline's approach to infrastructure issues. In the process, she challenges the many stakeholders in the scholarly infrastructure--scholars, publishers, libraries, funding agencies, and others--to look beyond their own domains to address the interaction of technical, legal, economic, social, political, and disciplinary concerns. Scholarship in the Digital Age will provoke a stimulating conversation among all who depend on a rich and robust scholarly environment.

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學者們現在可以獲得前所未有的豐富線上資訊、工具和服務。互聯網是分散、數據密集和協作研究的信息基礎設施的核心。儘管新技術(從數字化圖書到感測器網絡)引起了很多關注,但對學術事業影響最深遠的是底層的社會和政策變革。在《數字時代的學術研究》一書中,克里斯汀·博格曼探討了二十一世紀學術研究應該建立的技術、社會、法律和經濟方面的基礎設施。

博格曼描述了信息技術在研究項目的整個生命周期中所扮演的角色,並將這些新能力與相對穩定的學術交流系統進行了對比,後者仍然基於期刊、圖書和會議論文的出版。目前還沒有與出版相媲美的即將到來的“數據洪流”框架。博格曼分析了科學、社會科學和人文學科的學術實踐,比較了每個學科對基礎設施問題的處理方式。在此過程中,她呼籲學術基礎設施的眾多利益相關者(學者、出版商、圖書館、資助機構等)超越自身領域,解決技術、法律、經濟、社會、政治和學科等問題的相互作用。《數字時代的學術研究》將引發對於所有依賴於豐富而強大的學術環境的人的激動人心的對話。