infrastructure informationnelle
La contribution des amateurs aux infrastructures de partage de données : le cas de Canadensys
Special Issue « Knowledge Infrastructures – Part IV »
This issue of Science and Technology Studies is the final one of four in total published this year focusing on the topic of Knowledge Infrastructures. Across the four issues we have presented fourteen papers (thirteen research articles and one discussion paper) and four book reviews. In this final editorial we first take a look at […] Lire la suite
Special Issue « Knowledge Infrastructures – Part III »
This issue of Science and Technology Studies constitutes the third instalment of the special issue on Knowledge Infrastructures. Our initial call to take stock of existing research in this topic area across STS produced a high level of response and so the “special issue” will ultimately extend over the entire four issues of volume 29 […] Lire la suite
Special Issue « Knowledge Infrastructures – Part II »
The papers presented here were submitted in response to a call for papers that sought to draw together the current state of understanding of knowledge infrastructures from the viewpoint of STS and to provide a basis from which to evaluate the distinctive contribution that the theoretical resources of STS were making within this territory. That […] Lire la suite
Special Issue « Knowledge Infrastructures – Part I »
The focus of this special issue is on Knowledge Infrastructures. We have witnessed important changes in research and knowledge production in recent decades associated with developments in information technologies and infrastructures. In some circles these changes are promoted as a transformative force enabling new forms of investigation, but they may also be perceived as buttressing […] Lire la suite
Infrastructure sociotechnique
Facilitating community innovation: The Outils-Réseaux Way
Abstract In this paper, we describe the work of Outils-Réseaux, a French group whose mission is to encourage the development and use of collaborative tools by associative movements. We focus in particular on a recent experiment among a group of citizens in Brest, France. Drawing on interviews and an analysis of the content of the […] Lire la suite
La mise en base de données de matériaux de recherche en botanique et en écologie: Spécimens, données et métadonnées
Résumé Le développement de grandes bases de données constitue l’une des évolutions contemporaines les plus marquantes dans les sciences des trente dernières années. Elles constituent de nouveaux supports de production, de représentation et de mise en relation des savoirs et des connaissances. Cet article vise à examiner l’enchaînement d’instruments et de dispositifs dans la configuration […] Lire la suite
La science en réseau : les gestionnaires d’information « invisibles » dans la production d’une base de données scientifiques
Résumé : Les développements technologiques contemporains en matière d’infrastructures numériques permettent d’observer de nouvelles formes de travail, voire de nouvelles catégories de travailleurs, dans les milieux scientifiques. Basé sur une étude ethnographique d’un réseau américain de chercheurs en écologie, cet article s’attache au travail des gestionnaires d’information (information managers), « techniciens invisibles » responsables de la gestion des […] Lire la suite
Ocean informatics monograph. Ocean informatics initiative: An ethnographic study (2002-2006). Part 1: Report
The report presents an initial monograph on Ocean Informatics (OI), an information infrastructure initiative in the ocean science community. Using ethnographic methods, we observed and analyzed the development of the OI Initiative based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography over a period of 4 years (2002-2006). The focus of the report is the formation of an […] Lire la suite