Data Sharing with Christine Borgman (Part 1)
Channel: USC Annenberg
Date: 2012-09-03

See Part 2 Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSK2RQNMwX8&feature=youtu.be

As part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy initiative, the USC Office of Research and the Norman Lear Center present Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA, for a talk titled "Local or global?: Making sense of the data sharing imperative."

The deluge of research data has excited researchers, policy makers and the general public with the possibilities for exploring problems from climate to culture. Yet the very definition of "data" is contested, and determining whether something is "independently understandable" is problematic. Data rarely are simple objects that can be easily shared; rather they embody the epistemological perspectives of their creators/collectors/producers/authors. This talk will explore the matches and mismatches of motivations, interests and incentives of stakeholders in research data. 

Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Both of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Systems (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research.