Assembling an infrastructure for historic climate data recovery: data friction in practice
Assembling an infrastructure for historic climate data recovery: data friction in practice
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DOI：
10.1108/jd-08-2018-0130
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发表时间：
2019-07-08
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2.1
通讯作者：
Andrews, Penny
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作者：
Bates, Jo;Goodale, Paula;Andrews, Penny
目的本论文的目的是采用集合论的视角来考察社会-物质力量对恢复用于当代气候数据集的已存档的历史海洋气象记录基础设施的发展。设计/方法/方法作者采用数据旅程方法进行研究设计，对气候科学家、公民科学家和气候历史学家进行了深入的半结构化访谈，他们在从历史记录到国际综合海洋-大气数据集数据库的数据旅程中参与了关键地点的工作。访谈数据还补充了通过观察工作做法收集的进一步定性数据、公民科学家在线论坛的数字民族志，以及与气候数据在新兴数据基础设施中的流通和治理有关的文件。对数据进行了主题分析(Ryan和Bernard，2003)，主题主要由理论框架提供信息。调查结果作者确定并批判性地审查了数据恢复基础设施的构成和数据在其中流通的关键摩擦点，并确定了集合内有影响力的行为者所培养的信念和做法的反身性和适应性，以便在面临重大挑战的情况下推进建立基础设施的努力。最后，作者在21世纪初新自由主义国家的背景下，结合当前关于数据正义的辩论，阐述了其中一些适应性做法可能存在的局限性。原创性/价值论文借鉴了原始的经验数据和一个新的理论框架，该框架将德勒兹和瓜塔里的集合理论与关键数据研究(数据行程、数据摩擦和数据集合)领域的关键概念结合在一起，以阐明在21世纪初新自由主义国家的背景下数据恢复基础设施的社会物质构成。
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to adopt an assemblage theory lens to examine the socio-material forces shaping the development of an infrastructure for the recovery of archived historical marine weather records for use in contemporary climate data sets. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted a data journeys approach to research design, conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with climate scientists, citizen scientists and a climate historian who were engaged at key sites across the journey of data from historical record to the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set database. Interview data were complemented by further qualitative data collected via observations of working practices, a digital ethnography of citizen scientists' online forums, and documentation relevant to the circulation and governance of climate data across emergent data infrastructures. Data were thematically analysed (Ryan and Bernard, 2003), with themes being informed primarily by the theoretical framework. Findings The authors identify and critically examine key points of friction in the constitution of the data recovery infrastructure and the circulation of data through it, and identify the reflexive and adaptive nature of the beliefs and practices fostered by influential actors within the assemblage in order to progress efforts to build an infrastructure despite significant challenges. The authors conclude by addressing possible limitations of some of these adaptive practices within the context of the early twenty-first century neoliberal state, and in light of current debates about data justice. Originality/value The paper draws upon original empirical data and a novel theoretical framework that draws together Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theory with key concepts from the field of critical data studies (data journeys, data friction and data assemblage) to illuminate the socio-material constitution of the data recovery infrastructure within the context of the early twenty-first century neoliberal state.