by Knowledge Infrastructures | Oct 31, 2017 | News |
Our PhD students Irene Pasquetto and Bernie Randles gave presentations on September 1 at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Boston. The doctoral candidate Irene Pasquetto gave a presentation titled Decentralizing Climate Change Data While Preserving Scientific Value. The talk included Pasquetto’s analysis on the research practices of data management, curation, sharing and reuse in science. Our PhD student Bernie Randles presented her research work on the role of the algorithms in knowledge creation in computationally-intensive science domains. Her presentation Spacetime and code-time: Astronomical algorithms evolving through dimensions of temporality and materiality was part of the session Making Algorithms: Inscriptions, Benchmarks and Computers. See the abstract of Decentralizing Climate Change Data While Preserving Scientific Value See the abstract of Spacetime and code-time: Astronomical algorithms evolving through dimensions of temporality and materiality...
by Knowledge Infrastructures | Jun 14, 2017 | News |
One-year appointment beginning October 1, 2017, with possibility for renewal to summer 2019. Posted June 14, 2017; review of applications begins July 15, 2017; submission deadline is July 30, 2017. The UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join our research project (2015-2019), If Data Sharing is the Answer, What is the Question? https://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu. We are conducting interview, ethnographic, and document studies of scientific data practices such as data collection, analysis, management, sharing, and reuse in astronomy, earth sciences, and health sciences. This project is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Program in Digital Information Technology https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology. The postdoctoral researcher will participate in our team project to develop a new research theme on the interdependencies of data and software in scientific practices, and the resulting challenges for data reuse, stewardship, and sustainability. The researcher will collect new data, mine a 15-year trove of data for comparative analyses, and participate actively in the collaboration, including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews, document analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and writing for publication. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience in collaborative research, research project organization, and digital data research practices. The project is based at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for the duration of the postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is required for research and conferences. Required background includes completion of the PhD; social science research experience in conducting interviews, document analysis, or ethnography; strong writing skills, research experience studying any of the physical sciences or life sciences; and substantial knowledge of scholarly communication, practice, and policy in data-driven research. Preferred...
by Knowledge Infrastructures | Mar 14, 2017 | News |
On March 7, Professor Christine Borgman presented our latest paper to faculty and students at the Astrophysics Journal Club. The paper, The Durability and Fragility of Knowledge Infrastructures: Lessons Learned from Astronomy, is a result of a continuous study of knowledge infrastructures in astronomy. Presented paper: Borgman, C. L., Darch, P. T., Sands, A. E., & Golshan, M. S. (2016). The durability and fragility of knowledge infrastructures: Lessons learned from astronomy. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (Vol. 53, pp. 1–10). ASIS&T. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301057...
by Knowledge Infrastructures | Mar 13, 2017 | News |
Dr. Christine Borgman took part in the final panel of the Symposium on Big Data organized by InterActions, the UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. The panel Making, Curating and Engaging Data also served as a UCLA Digital Humanities Seminar. Professor Borgman presented the challenges around data curation in science. The symposium took place on March 3, 2017 at the GSE&IS building. GSE&IS InterActions Symposium on Big Data...
by Knowledge Infrastructures | Mar 12, 2017 | News |
On February 22, the CKI data scientist Milena Golshan presented at KnoweScape 2017 a keynote about our case study of the Data Archiving and Networking Services of the Netherlands (DANS). As part of our research work on DANS, we analyze the uses, users, policy, and practice of digital data archiving based on highly-distributed data collection, and the implications for data sharing and reuse. The last KnoweScape conference took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, February 22-24, 2017. CKI presentation on the case study of DANS KnoweScape 2017: Program ...
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