Borgman presents a thorough overview of research data across the disciplines. She argues that data are not very well understood but are also critical for the sustenance and sustainability of scholarship. Borgman compares how data are developed, manipulated, and stored in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and repeatedly suggests that better and more comprehensive research data management practices and knowledge infrastructures are needed. She writes,

The value proposition for access to data is the value proposition for knowledge infrastructures. (287)

Of note, Borgman also considers the ways in which data interplay with the open scholarship movement.

 

Work cited

Borgman, Christine. 2015. Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in The Networked World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.