The Commons of Science—Why It Takes a Village: Christine Borgman on Collaboration, Curation, and the Invisible Infrastructure of Knowledge
This article examines the evolution of scientific knowledge infrastructures through the influential work of Christine L. Borgman, Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA. Framed around the concept of science as a commons, it traces a three-decade transformation—from digital libraries in the 1990s to cyberinfrastructure in the 2000s, culminating in today’s sociotechnical framing of knowledge infrastructures. Borgman’s scholarship highlights how data acquire value not in isolation, but through complex systems of people, practices, tools, and institutions that enable their curation, sharing, and reuse.
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