Article ID: CBB070435927

Making Policies for Open Data: Experiencing the Technological Imperative in the Policy World (Special Issue Commentary) (March 2017)

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Wyatt, Sally (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 42
Issue: 2
Pages: 320-324


Publication Date: March 2017
Edition Details: Special Issue: Data Shadows
Language: English

This short commentary reflects on policy making for open data. The articles in this special issue all raise interesting challenges and questions for research policy, broadly defined, including how to stimulate researchers to make data open in the first place, how to reuse data sensibly, and how to ensure data are appropriately stored and made accessible for future users. This commentary reflects on the author’s own experience of taking part in an international policy forum that was tasked with preparing a report about the importance of making research data open. The author describes how she attempted to ensure insights from science and technology studies—made by contributors to this special issue and many others in the field—were incorporated in the final report. She also describes how technologically determinist arguments were invoked to close down discussions about the political dimensions of open access to research data.

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Authors & Contributors
Leonelli, Sabina
Christopher McKevitt
Włodzimierz Gogołek
Moats, David
Pezzani, Lorenzo
Ross, Emily
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Data collection; methods
Big data
Technology and politics
Methodology
Surveillance
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Great Britain
Shenzhen (China)
Europe
China
Institutions
Amazon (Firm)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
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