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Memory Practices in the Sciences (Inside Technology)

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I was hoping for a book that would give me more insight into how scientists work. Instead, this is a heavily footnoted beast filled with sentences such as "The observation that we are dealing both by necessity and by choice with data stores as fundamental to biodiversity science does not of course mean that theory drops out of the equation."

That's not to say that the book is consistently dull; it's sprinkled with enjoyable quotations and the occasional illuminating example. But overall, I can only recommend this book to those studying or working in the field of scientific repositories. To the rest of us, all of this discussion of data formats and naming standards are just too mundane.