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Dr. Scout Calvert Office: Kresge 300.24 (3 rd Floor Maximum Security Area) scoutcalvert@wayne.edu... more Dr. Scout Calvert Office: Kresge 300.24 (3 rd Floor Maximum Security Area) scoutcalvert@wayne.edu Office hours: TBA
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Data Science Journal
Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which amon... more Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which among many objects to cite for the long term can be difficult. There are few well-defined terms to describe the various kinds and qualities of persistence that object repositories and identifier resolvers do or don't provide. Despite decades of debate about permanence of digital objects and identifiers, it is still often treated as a simple binary property. Here we present a draft vocabulary for making "persistence statements." Given an object's identifier, one should be able to query a provider to retrieve human-and machine-readable information to help judge the level of service to expect and help gauge whether the identifier is durable enough, as a sort of long-term bet, to include in a citation. The vocabulary should enable providers to articulate persistence policies and set user expectations. Persistence statements: describing digital stickiness Ball, A 2010 Preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre. Byrnes, M M 2000 Defining NLM's commitment to the permanence of electronic information.
Data Science Journal
Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which amon... more Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which among many objects to cite for the long term can be difficult. There are few well-defined terms to describe the various kinds and qualities of persistence that object repositories and identifier resolvers do or don't provide. Despite decades of debate about permanence of digital objects and identifiers, it is still often treated as a simple binary property. Here we present a draft vocabulary for making "persistence statements." Given an object's identifier, one should be able to query a provider to retrieve human-and machine-readable information to help judge the level of service to expect and help gauge whether the identifier is durable enough, as a sort of long-term bet, to include in a citation. The vocabulary should enable providers to articulate persistence policies and set user expectations. Persistence statements: describing digital stickiness Ball, A 2010 Preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre. Byrnes, M M 2000 Defining NLM's commitment to the permanence of electronic information.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Jan 2, 2015
Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the perspective of ... more Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the perspective of three stakeholder groups: early adopter individuals who track data about their health, researchers who may use PHD as part of their research, and companies that market self-tracking devices, apps or services, and aggregate and manage the data that are generated. A targeted convenience sample of 465 individuals and 134 researchers completed an extensive online survey. Thirty-five hour-long semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a subset of 11 individuals and 9 researchers, as well as 15 company/key informants. Challenges to the use of PHD for research were identified in six areas: data ownership; data access for research; privacy; informed consent and ethics; research methods and data quality; and the unpredictable nature of the rapidly evolving ecosystem of devices, apps, and other services that leave "digital footprints." Individuals reported willingness to...
‘New Information Systems’ is an emerging field composed of social studies of science (STS), infor... more ‘New Information Systems’ is an emerging field composed of social studies of science (STS), information sciences (IS), workplace studies and technological design, and new media forms such as cyberinfrastructure or eResearch. Within this area we are exploring the connections and inter-relationships between empirical studies of information at knowledge creation and use, and methods from more traditional IS, social networks, grounded theory and ethnomethodology. The collective creation of a theoretically driven cluster at this juncture would tie us together in a convergence that would link our scholarship and enable students to access this strong and existing - yet invisible - college. We propose a “wildcard” session here that makes a space for people to speak about their methods, assess their viability for helping to build our emerging community, and hopefully to explore the “behind the scenes” actions associated with practicing any methods. Such an event is most timely. At the recent...
Of the persistent images of librarians, one in particular caricatures them as stubbornly refusing... more Of the persistent images of librarians, one in particular caricatures them as stubbornly refusing to adopt new information technologies. From outside the field of library and information science, this perception is unsurprising, given the pop-cultural image of the librarian as a joyless and sexless spinster, hell-bent on protecting books from the hands of the unwashed—the literally heathen—patron. From within the field, though, the stereotype smarts all the more because the visage of the technophobic librarian appears to be empirically unfounded, and it would seem, therefore, counterproductive for those working within the discipline to perpetuate this view. As I will argue, this figure relies on imprecise and ahistorical definitions of technology; implies a prescription for early adoption without providing a warrant or a standard; and imposes a stance that robs us of analytical tools suitable for a fine-grained account of technology in library and information science. Hence, the scapegoating of the tropic technophobic librarian elides the crucial socio-technical contexts in which librarians adopt, adapt, innovate, and translate a range of existing and emerging technologies. The caricature relies largely on an unexamined cultural context in which technical and technological work done by women goes unseen.
This content is not assigned to a topic In September 2006, the Institute for Food and Agricultura... more This content is not assigned to a topic In September 2006, the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS, now called the Center for the Study of Standards in Society [CS3]) at Michigan State University hosted a workshop on the development of standards for emerging nanotechnologies. Participants were drawn from university, corporate, government, and non-governmental sectors, representing a wide range of expertise and perspectives. This report is the outcome of two days of discussion, which identified major features of the nanotechnology standards landscape. The purpose of this report is to memorialize the perspectives of the participants in the development of this evolving technology. As such, this document reflects the thinking of a broad cross section of nanotechnology stakeholders at this moment in time.
The pedigree chart is a cornerstone technology for producing bodies and value in livestock pure b... more The pedigree chart is a cornerstone technology for producing bodies and value in livestock pure breeding. It organizes a cluster of processes, technologies, and discourses gathered under the rubric 'pedigree practices'. Angus breeders commonly use artificial insemination to import performance 'genetics' into their herds, using the 'expected progeny differences' predicted by massive pedigree databases that now also contain phenotype data reported by cattle growers. Discourses of biological inheritance, good breeding, and pedigrees arose in the eighteenth century, concomitant with a fascination with races, species, and other biological kinds. A case study from Angus cattle breeding illustrates pedigree practices and the bodies made through them, showing how information and computing technologies, assisted reproductive technologies, and discourses of good breeding, purity, health, and disease leveraged a single bull and the two genetic diseases he carried into the pedigrees of up to 10% of the Angus herd. Technologies now widely used in human reproductive medicine were developed for use in livestock animals, especially cattle, extending a long relationship between cows and humans. While the development of these pedigree practices represents increased control over animal reproduction and bodies, it has also been instrumental in rendering all animal bodies, including human bodies, not only more technically but also more rhetorically available for reproductive interventions. These interventions may amplify anxieties about health, species, breed, and kin while also providing opportunities for contesting the boundaries of these nature -cultural categories.
Library and information science is a technologically intensive profession with a high percentage ... more Library and information science is a technologically intensive profession with a high percentage of women, unlike computer science and other male-dominated fields. On the occasion of the 2011 ALISE conference, this essay analyzes the theme "Competitiveness and Innovation" through a review of social psychology and science and technology studies literature. Both theme concepts have ramifications for LIS education. Librarianship and teaching are both professions that resist commodification because they rely on embodied labor and personal interaction. Competition, as a management or learning style, may not promote meaningful innovation in LIS education, and instead risks creating a climate that is hostile to its chief demographic. The feminization of LIS can be seen as a strength insofar as it promotes the relative parity in numbers of men and women full-time faculty. LIS education should build on this strength in its innovation practices, enabling friendly encounters between technologies, and men and women alike.
Alongside a Detroit highway stands a large billboard advertisement for a unit of a large local me... more Alongside a Detroit highway stands a large billboard advertisement for a unit of a large local medical center. The billboard features the slogan "The War on Error". A hand holding a barcode scanner appears below, with the promise of "100% Medication Scanning for Safer Patient Care." The promise is precision and quality through technoscience, an un-ironic response to depersonalized medicine at a moment when health care reform is finally up for rancorous debate in the United States. 1 Behind the slogan is an intensification of the use of information technologies in hospital settings, not just for administration but also for the routine gathering of patient data and the enforcement of labor protocols. This intensification reaches beyond hospital settings in the shape of "informed patient" discourses and consumer health information.
Dr. Scout Calvert Office: Kresge 300.24 (3 rd Floor Maximum Security Area) scoutcalvert@wayne.edu... more Dr. Scout Calvert Office: Kresge 300.24 (3 rd Floor Maximum Security Area) scoutcalvert@wayne.edu Office hours: TBA
Data Science Journal
Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which amon... more Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which among many objects to cite for the long term can be difficult. There are few well-defined terms to describe the various kinds and qualities of persistence that object repositories and identifier resolvers do or don't provide. Despite decades of debate about permanence of digital objects and identifiers, it is still often treated as a simple binary property. Here we present a draft vocabulary for making "persistence statements." Given an object's identifier, one should be able to query a provider to retrieve human-and machine-readable information to help judge the level of service to expect and help gauge whether the identifier is durable enough, as a sort of long-term bet, to include in a citation. The vocabulary should enable providers to articulate persistence policies and set user expectations. Persistence statements: describing digital stickiness Ball, A 2010 Preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre. Byrnes, M M 2000 Defining NLM's commitment to the permanence of electronic information.
Data Science Journal
Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which amon... more Scholars increasingly use scientific and cultural assets in digital form, but choosing which among many objects to cite for the long term can be difficult. There are few well-defined terms to describe the various kinds and qualities of persistence that object repositories and identifier resolvers do or don't provide. Despite decades of debate about permanence of digital objects and identifiers, it is still often treated as a simple binary property. Here we present a draft vocabulary for making "persistence statements." Given an object's identifier, one should be able to query a provider to retrieve human-and machine-readable information to help judge the level of service to expect and help gauge whether the identifier is durable enough, as a sort of long-term bet, to include in a citation. The vocabulary should enable providers to articulate persistence policies and set user expectations. Persistence statements: describing digital stickiness Ball, A 2010 Preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Edinburgh, UK: Digital Curation Centre. Byrnes, M M 2000 Defining NLM's commitment to the permanence of electronic information.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, Jan 2, 2015
Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the perspective of ... more Understand barriers to the use of personal health data (PHD) in research from the perspective of three stakeholder groups: early adopter individuals who track data about their health, researchers who may use PHD as part of their research, and companies that market self-tracking devices, apps or services, and aggregate and manage the data that are generated. A targeted convenience sample of 465 individuals and 134 researchers completed an extensive online survey. Thirty-five hour-long semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a subset of 11 individuals and 9 researchers, as well as 15 company/key informants. Challenges to the use of PHD for research were identified in six areas: data ownership; data access for research; privacy; informed consent and ethics; research methods and data quality; and the unpredictable nature of the rapidly evolving ecosystem of devices, apps, and other services that leave "digital footprints." Individuals reported willingness to...
‘New Information Systems’ is an emerging field composed of social studies of science (STS), infor... more ‘New Information Systems’ is an emerging field composed of social studies of science (STS), information sciences (IS), workplace studies and technological design, and new media forms such as cyberinfrastructure or eResearch. Within this area we are exploring the connections and inter-relationships between empirical studies of information at knowledge creation and use, and methods from more traditional IS, social networks, grounded theory and ethnomethodology. The collective creation of a theoretically driven cluster at this juncture would tie us together in a convergence that would link our scholarship and enable students to access this strong and existing - yet invisible - college. We propose a “wildcard” session here that makes a space for people to speak about their methods, assess their viability for helping to build our emerging community, and hopefully to explore the “behind the scenes” actions associated with practicing any methods. Such an event is most timely. At the recent...
Of the persistent images of librarians, one in particular caricatures them as stubbornly refusing... more Of the persistent images of librarians, one in particular caricatures them as stubbornly refusing to adopt new information technologies. From outside the field of library and information science, this perception is unsurprising, given the pop-cultural image of the librarian as a joyless and sexless spinster, hell-bent on protecting books from the hands of the unwashed—the literally heathen—patron. From within the field, though, the stereotype smarts all the more because the visage of the technophobic librarian appears to be empirically unfounded, and it would seem, therefore, counterproductive for those working within the discipline to perpetuate this view. As I will argue, this figure relies on imprecise and ahistorical definitions of technology; implies a prescription for early adoption without providing a warrant or a standard; and imposes a stance that robs us of analytical tools suitable for a fine-grained account of technology in library and information science. Hence, the scapegoating of the tropic technophobic librarian elides the crucial socio-technical contexts in which librarians adopt, adapt, innovate, and translate a range of existing and emerging technologies. The caricature relies largely on an unexamined cultural context in which technical and technological work done by women goes unseen.
This content is not assigned to a topic In September 2006, the Institute for Food and Agricultura... more This content is not assigned to a topic In September 2006, the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS, now called the Center for the Study of Standards in Society [CS3]) at Michigan State University hosted a workshop on the development of standards for emerging nanotechnologies. Participants were drawn from university, corporate, government, and non-governmental sectors, representing a wide range of expertise and perspectives. This report is the outcome of two days of discussion, which identified major features of the nanotechnology standards landscape. The purpose of this report is to memorialize the perspectives of the participants in the development of this evolving technology. As such, this document reflects the thinking of a broad cross section of nanotechnology stakeholders at this moment in time.
The pedigree chart is a cornerstone technology for producing bodies and value in livestock pure b... more The pedigree chart is a cornerstone technology for producing bodies and value in livestock pure breeding. It organizes a cluster of processes, technologies, and discourses gathered under the rubric 'pedigree practices'. Angus breeders commonly use artificial insemination to import performance 'genetics' into their herds, using the 'expected progeny differences' predicted by massive pedigree databases that now also contain phenotype data reported by cattle growers. Discourses of biological inheritance, good breeding, and pedigrees arose in the eighteenth century, concomitant with a fascination with races, species, and other biological kinds. A case study from Angus cattle breeding illustrates pedigree practices and the bodies made through them, showing how information and computing technologies, assisted reproductive technologies, and discourses of good breeding, purity, health, and disease leveraged a single bull and the two genetic diseases he carried into the pedigrees of up to 10% of the Angus herd. Technologies now widely used in human reproductive medicine were developed for use in livestock animals, especially cattle, extending a long relationship between cows and humans. While the development of these pedigree practices represents increased control over animal reproduction and bodies, it has also been instrumental in rendering all animal bodies, including human bodies, not only more technically but also more rhetorically available for reproductive interventions. These interventions may amplify anxieties about health, species, breed, and kin while also providing opportunities for contesting the boundaries of these nature -cultural categories.
Library and information science is a technologically intensive profession with a high percentage ... more Library and information science is a technologically intensive profession with a high percentage of women, unlike computer science and other male-dominated fields. On the occasion of the 2011 ALISE conference, this essay analyzes the theme "Competitiveness and Innovation" through a review of social psychology and science and technology studies literature. Both theme concepts have ramifications for LIS education. Librarianship and teaching are both professions that resist commodification because they rely on embodied labor and personal interaction. Competition, as a management or learning style, may not promote meaningful innovation in LIS education, and instead risks creating a climate that is hostile to its chief demographic. The feminization of LIS can be seen as a strength insofar as it promotes the relative parity in numbers of men and women full-time faculty. LIS education should build on this strength in its innovation practices, enabling friendly encounters between technologies, and men and women alike.
Alongside a Detroit highway stands a large billboard advertisement for a unit of a large local me... more Alongside a Detroit highway stands a large billboard advertisement for a unit of a large local medical center. The billboard features the slogan "The War on Error". A hand holding a barcode scanner appears below, with the promise of "100% Medication Scanning for Safer Patient Care." The promise is precision and quality through technoscience, an un-ironic response to depersonalized medicine at a moment when health care reform is finally up for rancorous debate in the United States. 1 Behind the slogan is an intensification of the use of information technologies in hospital settings, not just for administration but also for the routine gathering of patient data and the enforcement of labor protocols. This intensification reaches beyond hospital settings in the shape of "informed patient" discourses and consumer health information.