@article{4ac0047a733f470b9e9d5cc38ee48ca5,
title = "Understanding data search as a socio-technical practice",
abstract = "Open research data are heralded as having the potential to increase effectiveness, productivity and reproducibility in science, but little is known about the actual practices involved in data search. The socio-technical problem of locating data for reuse is often reduced to the technological dimension of designing data search systems. We combine a bibliometric study of the current academic discourse around data search with interviews with data seekers. In this article, we explore how adopting a contextual, socio-technical perspective can help to understand user practices and behaviour and ultimately help to improve the design of data discovery systems.",
keywords = "Data retrieval, data reuse, data search, information seeking, research data",
author = "Gregory, {Kathleen M.} and Helena Cousijn and Paul Groth and Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt",
note = "Funding Information: KMG developed the conceptual frameworks, collected and analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. The other authors contributed to theory development and editing. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work is part of the project Re-SEARCH: Contextual Search for Research Data and was funded by the NWO Grant 652.001.002. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0165551519837182",
language = "American English",
volume = "46",
pages = "459--475",
journal = "Journal of Information Science",
issn = "0165-5515",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "4",
}