Recording Scientific Knowledge
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- FNAL (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States))
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 987394
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- 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
- Subject:
- 96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE; RECORDS
Citation Formats
Bowker, Geof. Recording Scientific Knowledge. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web.
Bowker, Geof. Recording Scientific Knowledge. United States.
Bowker, Geof. Mon .
"Recording Scientific Knowledge". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/987394.
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