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Information ecology: open system environment for data, memories, and knowing

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Information ecology: open system environment for data, memories, and knowing
An information ecology provides a conceptual framework to consider data, the creation of knowledge, and the flow of information within a multidimensional context. This paper, reporting on a one year project to study the heterogeneity of information and its management within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, presents some manifestations of traditionally unreported ‘invisible work’ and associated elements of informal knowledge and unarticulated information. We draw from a range of ethnographic materials to understand ways in which data-information-knowledge are viewed within the community and consider some of the non-linear aspects of data-knowledge-information that relate to the development of a sustained, robust, persistent infrastructure for data collection in environmental science research. Taking data as the unit of study, the notion of long-term research and data holdings leads to consideration of types of memory and of knowledge important for design of cyberi...
Karen S. Baker, Geoffrey C. Bowker
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Type Journal
Year 2007
Where JIIS
Authors Karen S. Baker, Geoffrey C. Bowker
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