General Information

Language

English.

Published

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Physical Description

397 p. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Daston, Lorraine, 1951- (editor.)

Subjects

Subject

Scientific archives.

Scientific archives > History.

Science > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Lorraine Daston.

Content

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.

ISBN

9780226432229

9780226432366

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	026/.5 DAS		Reference	-

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