Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving

Morgan Currie; Joan Donovan; Brittany Paris

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5

Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving

Morgan Currie, Joan Donovan, Brittany Paris

School of Social and Political Science

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The ownership of the life cycle of data—who creates it, processes it, visualizes it, preserves it—is a question of enormous power in our data-saturated society. The task of collecting, analyzing, and safeguarding large sets of data typically falls within the purview of data professionals: data scientists or statisticians tasked with deciphering the insights of large numbers or variables. Acting like modern-day oracles, they must know what metadata to collect, anticipate the needs of future users, and carefully track changes as data is worked upon and contexts change.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Data Science Landscape
Subtitle of host publication	Towards Research Standards and Protocols
Editors	Usha Mujoo Munshi, Neeta Verma
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	5
Pages	67-78
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-10-7515-5
ISBN (Print)	978-981-10-7514-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7515-5_5
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2 Mar 2018

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Name	Studies in Big Data
Volume	38
ISSN (Print)	2197-6503

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Preserving for a More Just Future: Tactics of Activist Data Archiving. / Currie, Morgan; Donovan, Joan; Paris, Brittany.
Data Science Landscape: Towards Research Standards and Protocols. ed. / Usha Mujoo Munshi; Neeta Verma. 1. ed. Singapore: Springer, 2018. p. 67-78 (Studies in Big Data; Vol. 38).

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