Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of
Hallam Stevens is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of
Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of
Hallam Stevens is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of
Valuing Data in Postgenomic Biology: How Data Donation and Curation Practices Challenge the Scientific Publication System
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Published:April 2015
Rachel A. Ankeny, Sabina Leonelli, 2015. "Valuing Data in Postgenomic Biology: How Data Donation and Curation Practices Challenge the Scientific Publication System", Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome, Sarah S. Richardson, Hallam Stevens
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This essay examines the implications of current data production and dissemination regimes for credit attribution and reward systems associated with authorship in genomic science. Paying attention to these scientific practices sheds light on one of the new and exciting aspects of postgenomic biology: the ways in which digital technologies are fostering new forms of scientific labor and ideals of community and openness that differ considerably from the period which preceded the postgenomic era.
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