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The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of \"information overload,\" yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.
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Big Data, Little Data, No Data
\"Big Data\" is on the covers ofScience, Nature, theEconomist, andWiredmagazines, on the front pages of theWall Street Journaland theNew York Times.But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data -- because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines.Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure -- an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships. After laying out the premises of her investigation -- six \"provocations\" meant to inspire discussion about the uses of data in scholarship -- Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy. To manage and exploit data over the long term, Borgman argues, requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures; at stake is the future of scholarship.
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Age of entanglement : German and Indian intellectuals across empire
Age of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through the Second World War as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. But, as Kris Manjapra shows, transnational intellectual entanglements are not inherently liberal or conventionally cosmopolitan.
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Worlds made by words : scholarship and community in the modern West
Revealing the microdynamics of the scholarly life, this text consists of a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers.
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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies.
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Planned Obsolescence
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for
2013 A bold approach to re-envisioning the future
of academic publishing Academic institutions are facing a
crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are
stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are
having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure
committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a
clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned
Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly
about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that
future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues
head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological
changes-especially greater utilization of internet publication
technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools,
and multimedia-necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive
into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key
issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in
origin. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's
own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication
through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded,
Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as
well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship
and the place of publishing within the structure of the
contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed
to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned
Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that
scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future.
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