World Wide Research

by Dutton, William H.; Jeffreys, Paul W.; Goldin, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780262014397
• ISBN10: 0262014394
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-21
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Advances in information and communication technology are transforming the way scholarly research is conducted across all disciplines. The use of increasingly powerful and versatile computer-based and networked systems promises to change research activity as profoundly as the mobile phone, the Internet, and email have changed everyday life. This book offers a comprehensive and accessible view of the use of these new approaches-called "e-Research"-and their ethical, legal, and institutional implications. The contributors, leading scholars from a range of disciplines, focus on how e-Research is reshaping not only how research is done but also, and more important, its outcomes. By anchoring their discussion in specific examples and case studies, they identify and analyze a promising set of practical developments and results associated with e-Research innovations. The contributors, who include Geoffrey Bowker, Christine Borgman, Paul Edwards, Tim Berners-Lee, and Hal Abelson, explain why and how e-Research activity can reconfigure access to networks of information, expertise, and experience, changing what researchers observe, with whom they collaborate, how they share information, what methods they use to report their findings, and what knowledge is required to do this. They discuss both the means of e-Research (new research-centered computational networks) and its purpose (to improve the quality of world-wide research). Contributors:Hal Abelson, Robert Ackland, Roger Barga, Tim Berners-Lee, Christine L. Borgman, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Alan Bowman, Joao Caraca, Gustavo Cardoso, Annamaria Carusi, Paul A. David, Grace de la Flor, Matthijs den Besten, David De Roure, Matthew Dovey, Ricardo B. Duque, William H. Dutton, Paul N. Edwards, Rita Espanha, Michael A. Fraser, Jenny Fry, Ian Goldin, Wendy Hall, Tony Hey, Steven J. Jackson, Paul Jeffreys, Marina Jirotka, Jane Kaye, Cory Knobel, Julia Lane, Xiaoming Li, Sharon Lloyd, Christine Madsen, Andrew Martin, Sandro Mendonca, Eric T. Meyer, Kieron O'Hara, Savas Parastatidis, Michael Parker, Justine Pila, Tina Piper, Rob Procter, Ralph Schroeder, Nigel Shadbolt, David Shotton, Wesley Shrum, Michael Spence, John Taylor, Mike Thelwall, David Vaver, Andrew Warr, John Wilbanks, Yorick Wilks, Paul Wouters, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Jonathan J. H. Zhu

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
World Wide Research: An Introduction	p. 1
Foundations
Reconfiguring Access in Research: Information, Expertise, and Experience	p. 21
The Long Now of Cyberinfrastructure	p. 40
Identifying Winners and Losers: The Role of Webometrics	p. 45
öSuperstarö Concentrations of Scientifi c Output and Recognition	p. 48
The Developing Conception of e- Research	p. 51
Research Platforms in the Cloud	p. 67
The New e- Research	p. 72
The Promises and Threats of e- Research in the Strategies of Firms and Nations	p. 75
State Of The Practice
Digital Resources and the Future of Libraries	p. 83
Data Webs for Image Repositories	p. 98
Digital Technology and Ancient Manuscripts	p. 102
Key Digital Technologies to Deal with Data	p. 107
Embedded Networked Sensing	p. 120
Identifying Digital Objects	p. 125
Use of the Semantic Web in e- Research	p. 130
Embedding e- Research Applications: Designing for Usability	p. 135
Trusted Computing Platforms	p. 153
Social Networking and e- Research	p. 157
Social Shaping Of Infrastructures And Practices
Enabling or Mediating the Social Sciences? The Opportunities and Risks of Bottom- up Innovation	p. 165
An e- Infrastructure for the Social Sciences	p. 185
Chinese e-Social Science: A Low- End Approach	p. 188
Institutional Infrastructures for Global Research Networks in the Public Sector	p. 191
Ownership of Medical Images in e- Science Collaborations:	p. 214
Learning from the Diagnostic Mammography National Database	p. 191
The Value of Authorship in the Digital Environment: Producing and Protecting Scientific Information	p. 218
The Politics of Privacy, Confi dentiality, and Ethics: Opening Research Methods	p. 223
Ethical and Moral Dimensions of e- Research	p. 241
Data Sharing in GenomicsùIs It Lawful?	p. 245
Protecting Confidentiality	p. 249
Implications For Research
The Changing Disciplinary Landscapes of Research	p. 257
The Agenda- Setting Role of e- Research	p. 272
Reshaping Research Collaboration: The Case of Virtual Research Environments	p. 277
The Future of Virtual Research Environments	p. 295
Will e- Science Be Open Science?	p. 299
The Politics of Open Access	p. 317
Open Access versus “Open Viewing” for a Web of Science: The Neurocommons Example	p. 322
Shaping Research in Developing Areas	p. 325
Coda: The Ends and Means of World Wide Research	p. 343
Glossary	p. 349
Abbreviations	p. 355
Index	p. 357
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