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Originalsprache | Englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 243–263 |
Seitenumfang | 21 |
Fachzeitschrift | Minerva |
Jahrgang | 61 |
Ausgabenummer | 2 |
Frühes Online-Datum | 1 Feb. 2023 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - Juni 2023 |
Abstract
Although the topic of data-sharing has boomed in the past few years, practices of datasharing have attracted only scant attention within working groups and scientific cooperation (peer-to-peer data-sharing). To understand these practices, the author draws on Max Weber’s concept of social relationship, conceptualizing data-sharing as social action that takes place within a social relationship. The empirical material consists of interviews with 34 researchers representing five disciplines—linguistics, biology, psychology, computer sciences, and neurosciences. The analysis identifies three social forms of data-sharing in peer-to-peer relationships: (a) closed communal sharing, which is based on a feeling of belonging together; (b) closed associative sharing, in which the participants act on the basis of an agreement; and (c) open associative sharing, which is oriented to “institutional imperatives” (Merton) and to formal regulations. The study shows that far more data-sharing is occurring in scientific practice than seems to be apparent from a concept of open data alone. If the main goal of open-data policy programs is to encourage researchers to increase access to their data, it could be instructive to study the three forms of data-sharing to improve the understanding of why and how scientists make their data accessible to other researchers.
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in: Minerva, Jahrgang 61, Nr. 2, 06.2023, S. 243–263.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - “We Share All Data with Each Other”: Data-Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Relationships
AU - Barlösius, Eva
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the German Science Foundation [grant number: 347305329], and the Leibniz Center of Science and Society of the Leibniz Universität Hannover. Funding Information: The first project has been financed by the Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS); the second, by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Although the topic of data-sharing has boomed in the past few years, practices of datasharing have attracted only scant attention within working groups and scientific cooperation (peer-to-peer data-sharing). To understand these practices, the author draws on Max Weber’s concept of social relationship, conceptualizing data-sharing as social action that takes place within a social relationship. The empirical material consists of interviews with 34 researchers representing five disciplines—linguistics, biology, psychology, computer sciences, and neurosciences. The analysis identifies three social forms of data-sharing in peer-to-peer relationships: (a) closed communal sharing, which is based on a feeling of belonging together; (b) closed associative sharing, in which the participants act on the basis of an agreement; and (c) open associative sharing, which is oriented to “institutional imperatives” (Merton) and to formal regulations. The study shows that far more data-sharing is occurring in scientific practice than seems to be apparent from a concept of open data alone. If the main goal of open-data policy programs is to encourage researchers to increase access to their data, it could be instructive to study the three forms of data-sharing to improve the understanding of why and how scientists make their data accessible to other researchers.
AB - Although the topic of data-sharing has boomed in the past few years, practices of datasharing have attracted only scant attention within working groups and scientific cooperation (peer-to-peer data-sharing). To understand these practices, the author draws on Max Weber’s concept of social relationship, conceptualizing data-sharing as social action that takes place within a social relationship. The empirical material consists of interviews with 34 researchers representing five disciplines—linguistics, biology, psychology, computer sciences, and neurosciences. The analysis identifies three social forms of data-sharing in peer-to-peer relationships: (a) closed communal sharing, which is based on a feeling of belonging together; (b) closed associative sharing, in which the participants act on the basis of an agreement; and (c) open associative sharing, which is oriented to “institutional imperatives” (Merton) and to formal regulations. The study shows that far more data-sharing is occurring in scientific practice than seems to be apparent from a concept of open data alone. If the main goal of open-data policy programs is to encourage researchers to increase access to their data, it could be instructive to study the three forms of data-sharing to improve the understanding of why and how scientists make their data accessible to other researchers.
KW - Data-sharing
KW - Open data
KW - Collaboration
KW - Community
KW - Working Group
KW - Social Relationship
KW - Social relationship
KW - Working group
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85147100358&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11024-023-09487-y
DO - 10.1007/s11024-023-09487-y
M3 - Article
VL - 61
SP - 243
EP - 263
JO - Minerva
JF - Minerva
SN - 0026-4695
IS - 2
ER -