motivations

13 Dec 2017

Are We All Just Lazy?

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Are We All Just Lazy? A. Michael Noll December 11, 2017 © 2017 AMN How many of our new products and services are motivated mostly by our laziness? However, the marketing folks would claim that they are just making life easier for us. Television sets of the past had tuners with knobs. To change a channel, we had to get up from our sofas and go to the TV set to turn the knob to a different channel. This was so much effort that we usually just left the TV set on a single channel for the entire evening. And […]
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24 Oct 2016

Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on Data Sharing

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Christine L. Borgman’s Quello Lecture on ‘Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data: Complexities and Contradictions in the Use of a Digital Data Archive’ presented for the Quello Center, Michigan State University, on October 5, 2016. The talk draws on her research with DANS, the Data Archiving and Networked Services of the Netherlands, and the UCLA Center for Knowledge Infrastructures. Christine L. Borgman – Motivations for Sharing and Reusing Data from Quello Center on Vimeo. Abstract Researchers face competing challenges for access to their data. One is the pressure to make their data open in response to mandates from funding agencies, […]
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