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 | #1427473 in Books |  2008-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.83 | File type: PDF | 274 pages

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||6 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| For archivists only|By Trevor Burnham|I was hoping for a book that would give me more insight into how scientists work. Instead, this is a heavily footnoted beast filled with sentences such as "The observation that we are dealing both by necessity and by choice with data stores as fundamental to biodiversity science does not of course mean that theory drops out of the equation| ||A brilliant and subtle analysis that uncovers and explains how conventions of naming, classifying, recording, and remembering create and preserve human knowledge. This book is required reading for all who do science or want to understand it -- a real tour de

The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past -- in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases -- shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the pas...

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