[Air-L] Database reading list

Thu May 26 00:36:46 PDT 2016

Hi Amanda!
Wonderful. I am really looking forward to this list. Thanks :-)

Here are two articles:
- Beaulieu, Anne (2004). From brainbank to database: the informational turn
in the study of the brain. *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical
Sciences* 35 (2):367-390.

- Hine, Christene. (2006). Databases as Scientific Instruments and Their
Role in the Ordering of Scientific Work. *Social Studies of Science*,
*36*(April),
269–298. http://doi.org/10.1177/0306312706054047

And possibly this:

Haider, J., & Kjellberg, S. (2016). Data in the making: Temporal aspects in
the construction of research data. In J. V. Rekers & K. Sandell (Eds.), *New
Big Science in focus: Perspectives on ESS and MAX IV* (pp. 143–163). Lund:
Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences.
https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/ws/files/3051583/8852248.pdf

Best regards,

Jutta

On 26 May 2016 at 02:01, Vivienne Waller <vwaller at swin.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Amanda,
> The following just-published article talks about how data is collected,
> organized, and manipulated - in the context of providing answers to queries
>
>  Waller, V (2016) “Making knowledge machine-processable: some implications
> of general semantic search” Behaviour & Information Technology.
>  Available  http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/REF8AEH679Ubc79aFrZE/full
>
>
> best regards
> Viv
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amanda Licastro [mailto:amanda.licastro at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2016 5:52 AM
> To: Cory Salveson
> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Database reading list
>
> Cory, Tarleton, and Paul,
>
> These are really fantastic. Thanks for your help. The more the merrier.
>
> Amanda
>
> Amanda Licastro, PhD
> Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Stevenson University in Maryland
> http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
> @amandalicastro
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Cory Salveson <corysalveson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > *Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow *(Ed. by
> > Victoria Vesna, University of Minnesota Press, 2007:
> > http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/database-aesthetics;
> > http://victoriavesna.com/dataesthetics) "examines the database as
> > cultural and aesthetic form, explaining how artists have participated
> > in network culture by creating data art." In particular, I think
> > Vesna's chapter, "Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: The Database
> > Aesthetics of Everything," discusses an art project involving the
> > storage, manipulation, presentation, etc. of medical data in a public
> art project.
> >
> > *Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and
> > Humanities* (Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, MIT Press, 2015:
> > https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/knowledge-machines)
> > explores "e-research" and how data (including big data) practices and
> > techniques are shaping/being shaped by scientific research generally.
> >
> > The chapters, "The Lockean view and databases" from *Information
> > Management: An Informing Approach *(Fons Wijnhoven, Routledge, 2010:
> > https://www.routledge.com/Information-Management-An-Informing-Approach
> > /Wijnhoven/p/book/9780415552158) and "Foucault and Data Bases" from
> > *The Mode of Information:
> > Poststructuralism and Social Contexts* (Mark Poster, Wiley, 1991:
> > http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745603270.html)
> > might contribute to a discussion of the epistemological orientation,
> > or assumptions and biases, of databases. E.g., even in a world of big
> > data, you can only put so much of certain delineated facts/symbolic
> > representations into the "universe of discourse" that databases
> represent.
> >
> > *The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire* (Thomas
> > Richards, Verso Books, 1993) "analyzes the ways in which the Victorian
> > organization of knowledge was enlisted into the service of the British
> > Empire, as fields like biology, geography and geology began to
> > function almost as extensions of British intelligence."
> >
> > Finally, something brief about "database" as a legal definition, for
> > example in terms of the EU Database Directive vs. U.S.'s looser
> > protections of databases under copyright law, might be beneficial in
> > conjunction with these.
> >
> > Good luck! I'd be interested to see the list when you're done.
> >
> > Cory Salveson
> > http://corysalveson.com
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Tarleton L. Gillespie
> > <tlg28 at cornell.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> This list focuses specifically on the metaphors used to describe data
> >> and databases, but it may have references relevant to your needs too.
> >>
> >>
> >> https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/metaphors-of-data-a-r
> >> eading-list/
> >>
> >> Tarleton
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/25/16, 9:53 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Amanda Licastro" <
> >> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of
> >> amanda.licastro at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hello Air Followers,
> >> >
> >> >I am looking to compile a list of readings on the database. I am
> >> >specifically looking for information about how data is collected,
> >> >organized, and manipulated in the humanities and social sciences,
> >> >and
> >> even
> >> >more specifically in terms of our teaching/assessment materials.
> >> >Take,
> >> for
> >> >example:
> >> >
> >> >Drucker, Johanna. “Database Narratives in Book and Online.” *Journal
> >> >of Electronic Publishing* 18.1 (2015): n. pag. Web.
> >> >http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.113?view=text;rgn=main
> >> >
> >> >Price, Kenneth M. “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic
> >> >Research
> >> >Collection: What’s in a Name?” *Digital Humanities Quarterly* 3.3
> (2009):
> >> >n. pag. Print.
> >> >http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/3/3/000053/000053.html
> >> >
> >> >I will create a public Zotero group of these materials and invite
> >> >anyone
> >> on
> >> >the list who is interested once I collect your suggestions.
> >> >
> >> >Thank you in advance,
> >> >Amanda
> >> >
> >> >Amanda Licastro, PhD
> >> >Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Stevenson University in
> >> >Maryland http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
> >> >@amandalicastro
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