Science in the archives : pasts, presents, futures / edited by Lorraine Daston.
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; case histories published in medical jo...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: third nature / Lorraine Daston
- Nature's own canon: archives of the historical sciences. Astronomy after the deluge / Florence Hsia
- The earth as archive: contingency, narrative, and the history of life / David Sepkoski
- Empiricism in the library: medicine's case histories / Andrew Mendelsohn
- Spanning the centuries: archives from ancient to modern. Archiving scientific ideas in Greco-Roman antiquity / Liba Taub
- Ancient history in the age of archival research / Suzanne Marchand
- The immortal archive: nineteenth-century science imagines the future / Lorraine Daston
- Problems and politics: controversies in the global archive. The "data deluge": turning private data into public archives / Bruno J. Strasser
- Evolutionary genetics and the politics of the human archive / Cathy Gere
- Montage and metamorphosis: climatological data archiving and the U.S. National Climate Program / Vladimir Janković
- The future of data: archives of the new millennium. Archives-of-self: the vicissitudes of time and self in a technologically determinist future / Rebecca Lemov
- An archive of words / Daniel Rosenberg
- Querying the archive: data mining from Apriori to Pagerank / Matthew L. Jones
- Epilogue: the time of the archive / Lorraine Daston.