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

Wyatt, Sally (Author)

Science, Technology, and Human Values
Volume: 42
Issue: 2
Pages: 320-324
Publication date: March 2017
Language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916687645

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

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Commentaries Science and technology studies (STS) Research Technological determinism Data collection Open access Public policy 21st century

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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Article Sabina Leonelli; Brian Rappert; Gail Davies (March 2017) Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness, and Absence (Special Issue Introduction). Science, Technology, and Human Values (pp. 191-202). unapi

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