81 research outputs found
Non-discursive knowledge and the construction of identity. Potters, potting and performance at the bronze age tell of Százhalombatta, Hungary
No full textThis article explores the relationship between the making of things and the making of people at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary. Focusing on potters and potting, we explore how the performance of non-discursive knowledge was critical to the construction of social categories. Potters literally came into being as potters through repeated bodily enactment of potting skills. Potters also gained their identity in the social sphere through the connection between their potting performance and their audience. We trace degrees of skill in the ceramic record to reveal the material articulation of non-discursive knowledge and consider the ramifications of the differential acquisition of non-discursive knowledge for the expression of different kinds of potter's identities. The creation of potters as a social category was essential to the ongoing creation of specific forms of material culture. We examine the implications of altered potters' performances and the role of non-discursive knowledge in the construction of social models of the Bronze Ag
DataOne: Supporting Data Discovery and Access through Social and Technical Infrastructure.pdf
No full textAddressing grand challenge questions requires exploration at broad spatial,
geographic and temporal scales, facilitated through easy access to distributed,
heterogeneous data. DataONE is an interoperable, federated network of data
repositories providing open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described
and easily discovered data about life and the environment. Over the last ten years of
development, both technical and social capacity building has been critical in creating
an infrastructure that meets the current and future needs of the community.
Informed by working group research, community engagement, and usability
evaluation, DataONE has developed a comprehensive search and discovery platform
exposing over 1.2M data files; tools and services that support research
reproducibility, transparency and credit; and data management training and
resources to enhance data literacy. Through these and aligned activities, DataONE
has improved interoperability across a broad coalition of data repositories and
enhanced data practices across a diverse community of researchers, data managers,
and data librarians.DataONE is a community-governed network built in partnership with existing data
repositories supporting distinct and diverse communities. As DataONE continues to
grow from a funded project into a sustained program, this networked, user-driven
approach continues to inform infrastructure development, feature design and
prioritization, maximizing the value and impact of research data in an increasingly
complex, diversified data discovery and use landscape.ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)Amber Budden is the Director of Learning and Outreach at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis where she leads the NCEAS Learning Hub and short course activities. She is an open science facilitator, community manager and data
literacy trainer and serves as a co-lead on several projects, including DataONE, a
community-networked infrastructure supporting Earth and environmental scientists in
their data management, preservation, search and discovery needs. An advocate for
open and transparent science, Amber previously conducted research on article
publication practices before working in the open data landscape. In her current roles,
Amber supports the community in using open science infrastructure and leads training
and outreach activities focused on best practices for data management. Amber has a PhD in behavioral ecology and has conducted postdoctoral research on
avian sexual selection and life-histories at the University of California Berkeley in
addition to bibliometrics research at NCEAS. Amber has held teaching positions at the
University of Toronto and York University in Canada and she has worked in outreach
and publications within the non-profit sector. She is currently a principal investigator on
several cyberinfrastructure awards including DataONE the Arctic Data Centre and the Permafrost Discovery Gateway; is Chair of the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee; Member of the Make Data Count team; Advisory Board member for the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement; and was a board member of the National Postdoctoral Association.Amber holds a PhD in Behavioral Ecology from the University of Wales, a Joint Honors BSc in
Psychology and Zoology from the University of Bristol and qualification in youth and
community work. </div
DataONE Member Node Implementation Workshop
No full textWorkshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Workshops and TutorialsThis one-day workshop will a) provide a brief overview of the Data Observation Network for Earth project (DataONE; http://dataone.org), b) explain the benefits for groups and institutions of collaborating with DataONE as a Member Nodes, c) present different ways to participate as a Member Node, d) discuss the process of becoming a Member Node, and e) demonstrate how to use the DataONE web services to access content from client applications. By the end of the workshop, participants will understand the design of DataONE, the services that DataONE provides to its Member Nodes and the users of those Member Nodes, and the technical information needed to establish a Member Node at their organization.
Intended Audience: Information managers and technical staff at organizations that are interested in becoming DataONE Member Nodes or that have started the process of becoming a DataONE Member Node.Wilson, Bruce (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)Koskela, Rebecca (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)Vieglais, David (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA)Jones, Chris (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)Budden, Amber (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)Moyers, Laura (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
The culture I identify with: An interview with Gary Budden
No full textGary Budden is the co-founder of award-winning independent publisher Influx Press, and the author of several books, including London Incognita (Dead Ink, 2020), Hollow Shores (Dead Ink, 2017), the Shirley Jackson Award-Shortlisted Judderman (Eden Book Society, 2018. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including Ambit, Nightscript, Gorse, The Quietus, Structo, Minor Literature(s), Confingo, Uncertainties, The Lonely Crowd and many more. He lives in Enfield, north London.
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Gary Budden's London Incognita (2020) is an engaging and witty self-referencing collection of short fiction, creative non-fiction, hommages, tributes and asides that slowly accrues into a metafictional web of material that explores the dark underbelly of late 20th Century London. Budden's characters are often homeless, or burnt-out squatters, junkies or alcoholics; many are socially and spiritually lost, inhabiting a countercultural netherworld of punk bands and zines, surrounded by imaginary creatures who act as a personification of the unspeakable horror that are rumoured to inhabit the unknown regions of the city.
It's not all gloom and doom and disappearances though, as some characters kick their habits, some succeed in the music business with their band Scarp, others return from wherever they've been after disappearing, and Melissa – one of the many writers that Budden creates and writes as in this collection – makes a mark with her zine, Magnesium Burns, which twenty years on from issue 1 is getting mainstream recognition in the form of a collected book edition and retrospective exhibition.
Throughout, Budden namechecks or alludes to his literary sources and inspirations and in addition creates a new fictional pantheon of obscure and neglected writers, some of whom he then inhabits to create diaries, stories or letters, whilst others are simply mentioned in passing by his characters, often in association with imaginary collectable small presses. In a similar manner, much is left to the reader to imagine, especially the elusive monsters known as the Judderman and the Commare who are seen by many out of the corners of their eyes and can seem both scary and alluring. Either way they act as personifications of the dark, damp and unknown, luring characters to unknown destinations, be that elsewhere, undocumented suburban sprawl or death.
Budden is adamant that 'London is never finished. London never was like it was. Build and destroy and repeat.' (2020: 303) His book is set in the cracks between community and gentrification, a world where poverty is real, tower blocks burn, music and drink and drugs are not signs of rebellion but are all that hold many people's lives together. London Incognita is an astonishing exploration of the city, imagined and real, tinted with horror in all shapes and forms, real and imaginary. Its characters live on the edge, geographically, socially and psychically. It is melancholic, horrific, brutal, honest and inspirational by turns, not to mention shockingly readable. I wanted to find out more about this punk psychogeography
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: the Importance of Rejection, Power, and Editors in the Practice of Scientific Publishing
No full textPeer review is an important element of scientific communication but deserves quantitative examination. We used data from the handling service manuscript Central for ten mid-tier ecology and evolution journals to test whether number of external reviews completed improved citation rates for all accepted manuscripts. Contrary to a previous
study examining this issue using resubmission data as a proxy for reviews, we show that citation rates of manuscripts do not correlate with the number of individuals that provided reviews. Importantly, externally-reviewed papers do not outperform editor-only reviewed published papers in terms of visibility within a 5-year citation window. These findings suggest that in many instances editors can be all that is needed to review papers (or at least conduct the critical first review to assess general suitability) if the purpose of peer review is to primarily filter and that journals can consider reducing the number of referees associated with reviewing ecology and evolution papers.This work was conducted as part of the “Role of publication-related biases in ecology” Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (grant #DEB- 0072909). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Publication was made possible by the York University Libraries' Open Access Author Fund
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No full text<p>This script is part of the analysis presented in: Sébastien Renaut, Amber E. Budden, Dominique Gravel, Timothée Poisot, Pedro Peres-Neto. 2018. Data management, archiving and sharing for biologists and the role of research institutions in the technology-oriented age. Bioscience. Accepted</p>
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