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Taxonomy for Humans or Computers? Cognitive Pragmatics for Big Data

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Author	Franz, Nico M. Sterner, Beckett
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Criticism of big data has focused on showing that more is not necessarily better, in the sense that data may lose their value when taken out of context and aggregated together. The next step is to incorporate an awareness of pitfalls for aggregation into the design of data infrastructure and institutions. A common strategy minimizes aggregation errors by increasing the precision of our conventions for identifying and classifying data. As a counterpoint, we argue that there are pragmatic trade-offs between precision and ambiguity that are key to designing effective solutions for generating big data about biodiversity. We focus on the importance of theory-dependence as a source of ambiguity in taxonomic nomenclature and hence a persistent challenge for implementing a single, long-term solution to storing and accessing meaningful sets of biological specimens. We argue that ambiguity does have a positive role to play in scientific progress as a tool for efficiently symbolizing multiple aspects of taxa and mediating between conflicting hypotheses about their nature. Pursuing a deeper understanding of the trade-offs and synthesis of precision and ambiguity as virtues of scientific language and communication systems then offers a productive next step for realizing sound, big biodiversity data services.
Starting Page	99
Ending Page	111
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15555542
Journal	Biological Theory
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15555550
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2017-02-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of Biology Concept taxonomy Nomenclature Cognitive pragmatics Data aggregation Big data Knowledge representation and reasoning Evolutionary Biology Cognitive Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics History and Philosophy of Science

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