%0 Journal Article
%T Data struggles: The life and times of a database in Historical Climatology
%A Kris Decker
%J Social Science Information
%@ 1461-7412
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0539018417739712
%X Open access to research data has become an issue in many contemporary sciences. One of them is Historical Climatology, a discipline drawing on archival materials to study the climate¡¯s past. Based on fieldwork, the article explores the construction of a shared database by a group of historical climatologists and describes the strategies and hopes built into that infrastructure. I examine how the possession and provision of data relate to issues of recognition and legitimacy, thereby turning database construction into a practice of social import. Further, I argue that taking into account the diversity of research materials from which climate data is constituted ¨C historical documents, tree-rings, ice-cores, etc. ¨C is crucial for apprehending both the status of distinct types of data and the status of distinct research groups in the scientific field under investigation here
%K data sharing
%K ethnography of databases
%K Historical Climatology
%K materiologies
%K open access
%K Science & Technology Studies
%K climatologie historique
%K ethnographie des bases de donn¨¦es
%K libre acc¨¨s
%K partage de donn¨¦es
%K materiologies
%K Science & Technology Studies
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0539018417739712