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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Data intermediaries"”.
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Data + disasters : rethinking the role of Metro Boston's data intermediaries in disaster management
… have raised urgent questions about the role of data providers in disaster response and recovery. Digital tools such as maps that display emergency shelter locations or levels of E.Coli contamination in floodwaters are typically created and managed by a local data intermediary. A data …
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Open government data intermediaries : mediating data to drive changes in the built environment
In recent years open data initiatives, which make government data publicly available in a machine-readable format for reuse and redistribution, have proliferated, driven by the launch of open-data government initiatives such as data.gov and data.gov.uk. Research on open data has focused on its …
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Data work configurations in the field-based natural sciences: mesoscale infrastructures, project collectives, and data gateways
… longitudinal ethnographic study investigates data work configurations of research projects in the field-based natural sciences. Project collective data work involves managing data in addition to facilitating digital data archiving. Through qualitative analysis, the concepts of data work …
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Transforming viscous data into liquid data : how does intermediating through platforms impact data?
This study examines how data platform intermediaries enable the evolution of viscous data into liquid data. Viscous data represents the many data usage problems that have plagued information systems since data was first used. Data may be viscous because of poor quality, lack of timeliness, size …
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The social impact of open government data
… investigates the claim that open government data (OGD) should have a noticeable impact on marginalized groups’ inclusion in policy making. OGD researchers and practitioners conceptualize that society’s marginalized use OGD to achieve inclusion by overcoming information asymmetries and holding …
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Data for Housing Justice: Examining Activists’ Use of Open Government Data for Housing Justice in Boston, MA and New York, NY
… the world over have expanded access to public data through open government data (OGD) portals, from the local to national levels. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development describes OGD as a philosophy and a set of politics that aims to serve three social, political, and …