Article ID: CBB274619537

Mobile researchers, immobile data: Managing data (producers) (2023)

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Scientific institutions have increasingly embraced formalized research data management strategies, which involve complex social practices of codifying the tacit dimensions of data practices. Several guidelines to facilitate these practices have been introduced in recent years, for example, the FAIR guiding principles. The aim of these practices is to foster transparency and reproducibility through ‘data sharing,’ the public release of data for unbounded reuse. However, a closer look suggests that many scientists’ practices of data release might be better described as what I call data handovers. These practices are not rooted in the lofty ideals of good scientific practice and global data reuse but in the more mundane necessities of research continuity, which have become more urgent in light of increasing academic mobility. The Austrian scientists interviewed for this study reinterpreted defining features of research data management – such as ensuring findability – as techniques for managing the effects of researcher mobility. This suggests that the adoption of Open Science practices might be dissociated from its stated epistemic goals, and explains why many Open Science initiatives at present are administratively strong but normatively weak.

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Authors & Contributors
Felt, Ulrike
Fochler, Maximilian
Kay Felder
Michael Penkler
Ash, Mitchell G.
Daling, Dorien
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Science Communication
Social Studies of Science
Blätter für Technikgeschichte
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Mimesis
MIT Press
Concepts
Open science
Research
Data sharing
Academic disciplines
Data collection
Science and technology studies (STS)
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Austria
United States
Brazil
China
European Union
Europe
Institutions
Apple (firm)
European Space Agency (ESA)
United States. Geological Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
Institute for Social Research, Univ. of Michigan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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