An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

We must all accept that science is data and that data are science, and thus provide for, and
justify the need for the support of, much‐improved data curation.(Hanson, Sugden, & …

Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to
support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and …

When scientists from two or more disciplines work together on related problems, they often
face what we call 'science friction'. As science becomes more data-driven, collaborative, and …

Open access to data, as a core principle of open science, is predicated on assumptions that
scientific data can be reused by other researchers. We test those assumptions by asking …

Science and technology always have been interdependent, but never more so than with
today's highly instrumented data collection practices. We report on a long-term study of …

Maps in the form of digital images are widely available in geoportals, Web pages, and other
data sources. The metadata of map images, such as spatial extents and place names, are …

With today's increasing attention to open science and open data, knowledge production and
data production have significant impacts on both research and policy arenas. We scrutinize …

Environmental scientists are increasing their capitalization on advancements in technology,
computation, and data management. However, the extent of that capitalization is unknown …

Data are proliferating far faster than they can be captured, managed, or stored. What types of
data are most likely to be used and reused, by whom, and for what purposes? Answers to …