The Secret Life of a Weather Datum

“天气数据的秘密生活”计划旨在试行一种新方法，以更好地理解和沟通天气数据从生产到各种“大数据”整理、分发和再利用的过程中，社会文化价值和实践是如何体现的；以及，这些社会文化价值观和实践本身在与数据交互过程中的不同时刻是如何转变的。通过追踪单个天气数据从生产和整理到“大”数据集的（隐喻性）历程，以及它在三种不同社会文化背景下的分布和再利用，关注“大”天气数据中的小数据——气候科学，金融市场和公民科学项目——该项目旨在发展“大数据”生产和使用的创新概念，鼓励参与塑造当代数据驱动发展的复杂社会文化过程。该项目提出了以下问题：-英国气象局产生的天气数据从产生到整理和在不同情况下作为“大”天气数据重新使用的“旅程”是什么？-在数据从生产到各种整理、分发和再利用的过程中，在数据的转换过程中，阐明了哪些社会文化价值观和实践？这些社会文化价值观和实践本身在与数据的交互过程中是如何转换的？-在不同情况下重用天气资料时，有哪些制度政策和做法，以及政府的政策和法例会影响天气资料的分发和发牌？-如何将影响“大”天气数据生产、整理、分发和再利用的社会文化动态的复杂性传达给更广泛的受众？为了回答这些研究问题，该项目开发了四个不同但相互关联的案例研究，这些案例研究可以探索社会文化价值观和实践，这些价值观和实践影响着国家和市场机构以及公民团体的集体行动中天气数据的生产、整理、分发和再利用。案例研究的重点是：英国气象局（Met Office）生产的天气数据；公共和制度政策背景对其分布的影响；包括气象局哈德利中心在内的英国气候科学主要中心的天气数据再利用，英国金融部门的天气风险和衍生品市场，以及包括旧天气项目在内的公民科学项目。该项目将为每个案例研究提供一份工作报告和三篇学术期刊文章。这个项目产生的有形资产将是一个整合研究数据档案的互动网站，旨在让公众参与“大”天气数据的生产和再利用。该资产将在未来进一步开发，并将获得知识共享许可，以鼓励其他人重新使用案例材料。该项目将举办一个网站的在线发布，以及一个旨在在学术界内外传播和影响的创新项目结束活动。

The Secret Life of a Weather Datum project aims to pilot a new approach for better understanding and communicating how socio-cultural values and practices are articulated in the transformation of weather data on its journey from production through to various contexts of 'big data' collation, distribution and re-use; and, how these socio-cultural values and practices themselves transform as they interact with the data at various moments over the course of its journey.Through focusing on the small in 'big' weather data by tracing the (metaphorical) journey of a single weather datum from its production and collation into a 'big' dataset, to its distribution and re-use in three different socio-cultural contexts - climate science, financial markets and citizen science projects - the project aims to develop an innovative conceptualisation of 'big data' production and use that encourages engagement with the complex socio-cultural processes shaping contemporary data-driven developments.The project asks the following questions: - What is the 'journey' that weather data produced by the UK's Met Office takes from its production through to its collation and re-use as 'big' weather data in different contexts? - What socio-cultural values and practices are articulated in the transformation of this data on its journey from production through to various contexts of collation, distribution and re-use, and how do these socio-cultural values and practices themselves transform as they interact with the data over the course of its journey? - What institutional policies and practices, and government policies and legislation, shape the distribution and licensing of weather data for re-use in different contexts? - How can the complexity of the socio-cultural dynamics shaping the production, collation, distribution and re-use of 'big' weather data be communicated to a wider audience?To answer these research questions, the project develops four distinct, but interconnected case studies, which enable exploration of socio-cultural values and practices shaping weather data production, collation, distribution and re-use across institutions of the state and market, and in the collective actions of citizen groups. The case studies focus on: the production of the weather datum by the UK's Met Office; the public and institutional policy context shaping its distribution; the re-use of the weather datum within key centres of UK Climate Science including the Met Office Hadley Centre, the weather risk and derivatives markets in the UK's financial sector, and citizen science projects including the Old Weather Project.The project will produce a working paper for each case study, and three academic journal articles. The tangible asset to come out of this project will be an interactive website with integrated research data archive aimed at public engagement with the topic of 'big' weather data production and re-use. This asset will be developed further in the future, and will be Creative Commons licensed to encourage re-use of the case materials by others. The project will host an online launch of this website, and an innovative end of project event aimed at dissemination and impact within and beyond academia.