FIMS Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Journal
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
First Page
1
Last Page
10
Abstract
Abstract This research explores the ways values, power, and politics shape and are shaped by digital infrastructure development through an in-depth study of HathiTrust’s “dark history,” the period of years leading up to its public launch. This research identifies and traces the emerging and iterative ways that values were surfaced and negotiated, decision making approaches were strategically modified, and relationships were strengthened, reconfigured, and sometimes abandoning through the process of generating a viable, robust and sustainable collaborative digital infrastructure. Through this history, we gain deeper understandings and appreciations of the various and sometimes surprising ways that values, power, and politics are implicated in digital infrastructure development. Shedding light on this history enables us to better contextualize and understand the affordances, limitations, and challenges of the HathiTrust we know today, better envision its range of possible futures, and develop richer appreciations for digital infrastructure development more broadly.
Citation of this paper:
Alissa Centivany (2017). "The Dark History of HathiTrust," in proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS '17)
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Alissa Centivany (2017). "The Dark History of HathiTrust," in proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS '17)