Recording Scientific Knowledge

Multimedia · Mon Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI ID:987394

Bowker, Geof

The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past - in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases - shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this talk, I look at how over the past two hundred years, information technology has affected the nature and production of scientific knowledge. Further, I explore ways in which the emergent new cyberinfrastructure is changing our relationship to scientific practice.

• Research Organization: FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 987394
• Resource Relation: Conference: SLAC Colloquium Series, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, presented on January 01, 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
RECORDS