Related Documentation

CRL Reports and Publications

eDesiderata Forum: Licensing ‘Big Data’ Summary Report. January, 2017

Leviathan: Libraries and Government Information in the Age of Big Data,” FOCUS on Global Resources Summer 2014

The Evolving Supply Chain for Government-Produced Information,” FOCUS on Global Resources Fall  2013        

Related Reading

Bronson, Kelly, and Irena Knezevic,”Big Data in Food and Agriculture,” Big Data & Society 3.1 (2016): 1-5

Goet, Niels, “What Big Data Can Teach Political Scientists,” Oxpol, The Oxford University Politics Blog, 27 April 2016

Grimmer, Justin, “We Are all Social Scientists Now: How Big Data, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference Work Together,” PS: Political Science & Politics 48 (1), 80-83, 2015

Lamdan, Sarah and Yasmin Sokkar Harker, “LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics,” in Law Librarian Blog, December 11, 2017

Lynch, Clifford, “Stewardship in the ‘Age of Algorithms’,” First Monday 4 December 2017, 22 (12)

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Vietnamese Newspapers Essential for Berkeley Dissertation

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Helping Libraries Deal with ‘Big’ Data

At CRL’s 2018 Global Collections Forum, Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Head of Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections at Stanford University Libraries, discussed how satellite imagery and large geospatial datasets are being used as source materials for scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the new types of library support they require.