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Systematics as cyberscience : computers, change, and continuity in science /

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For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the cla...

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Main Author: Hine, Christine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series:Inside technology
Subjects:
Biology > Classification > Data processing.
Information storage and retrieval systems > Biology.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780262275408
0262275406
9781435628366
1435628365
1282099345
9781282099340
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262083713.001.0001