1. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault
@TraceyLauriault
Tracey.Lauriault@NUIM.ie
http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/
NIRSA, Maynooth University
ESRI Ireland Lunchtime Seminar
Thinking about Classifications & Making up Spaces
Dec. 1st, 1300-1400 Block B, Ashtown Gate, Navan Road, Dublin 15, Ireland
2. The Programmable City
•A European Research Council (ERC) and Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) funding
•SH3: Environment and Society
•Led by Dr Rob Kitchin, the Primary Investigator
•Based at the National Institute for Regional and Spacial Analysis (NIRSA)
•At the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM)
3. MIT Press 2011
Sage 2014
Aim of the ERC project is to build off and extend a decade of work that culminated in Code/Space book (MIT Press) with a set of detailed empirical studies
4. Objective
•to provide:
•an interdisciplinary analysis of the two core inter-related aspects of the emerging programmable city:
•(a) Translation: how cities are translated into code, and
•(b) Transduction: how code reshapes city life” (Kitchin 2011).
5. Objectives
How is the city translated into software and data? How do software and data reshape the city?
Translation:
City into Code & Data
Transduction: Code & Data Reshape City
THE CITY
CODE & DATA
Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models
Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation
6. ProgCity Research Matrix
Translation:
City into code
Transduction:
Code reshapes city
Understanding the city
(Knowledge)
How are digital data materially and discursively supported and processed about cities and their citizens?
How does software drive public policy development and implementation?
Managing
the city
(Governance)
How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?
How is software used to regulate and govern city life?
Working
in the city
(Production)
How is the geography and political economy of software production organised?
How does software alter the form and nature of work?
Living
in the city
(Social Politics)
How is software discursively produced and legitimated by vested interests?
How does software transform the spatiality and spatial behaviour of individuals?
7. Kitchin’s Data Assemblage
Attributes
Elements
Systems of thought
Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models, ideologies, rationalities, etc.
Forms of knowledge
Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites, experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.
Finance
Business models, investment, venture capital, grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.
Political economy
Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion, ethical considerations, etc.
Govern- mentalities / Legalities
Data standards, file formats, system requirements, protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual property regimes, etc.
Materialities & infrastructures
Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors, scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.
Practices
Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours, scientific conventions, etc.
Organisations & institutions
Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers, retailers, government agencies, universities, conferences, clubs and societies, committees and boards, communities of practice, etc.
Subjectivities & communities
Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts, scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.
Places
Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms, business parks, etc, and their agglomerations
Marketplace
For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs, maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations, etc.
Systems of thought
9. Geographical Imaginations
National reality is conditioned by government generated data and the related infrastructures that produce them.
Data and infrastructures shape and are shaped by geographic imaginations.
Geographic imaginations have real material effects as they produce knowledge, spaces and subjects which are acted upon.
10. Data
Data and maps are technological and scientific products, interrogated according to the norms of the scientific messages they convey as well as the social contexts of their emergence, dissemination and use (Pickles, Harley, Latour).
•Data and maps are socio-technological objects (Hughes)
•Maps & data are knowledge representations, inscriptions and immutable mobiles (Latour)
•Maps and data are arrangements of “facts within a specific cultural perspective” (Harley)
•Atlas of Canada and Census of Canada are infrastructural work (Curtis)
11. Infrastructures
Technopolitical Regime – grounded in institutions, linked sets of people, engineering and industrial practices, technological artifacts, political programs and institutional ideologies which act together to govern technological development and pursue technopolitics (Hetch)
•Story telling system (Kim & Ball-Rokeach)
•Implicated in the “cultural construction of space” (Dourish & Bell)
•Information ecology (Nardy & O’Day)
•Properties of infrastructure – ethnographic view (Star & Ruhleder)
•Inscription devices & black box (Latour)
•Large technopolitical regimes (Hetch) with momentum (Hughes, Feenberg) exhibiting infrastructural determinism (Lauriault & Lenczner)
•Invisible, human built technological fabric of society (Hayes)
12. Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
Is gouvernementale, biopolitical & a socio-technopolitical state formation activity that helps construct geographical imaginations
13. Geographic Imaginations
Joseph Campbell “the society of the Planet” from the Power of the Myth in reference to the Blue Marble Image released by NASA in 1972
14. •Said - Orientalism
•Cosgrove - Appollo’s Eye
•Anderson - Imagined Communities
•Lefebvre - The Production of Space
•Debarbieux - Imagination et imaginaire géographiques
•Wright - Terrae Incognitae
•Tang - The Geographic Imagination of Modernity
•Schulten - The Geographical Imagination in America 1880-1950
•Winichakul - Geo-body
Data as representations/inscriptions of space & infrastructure as spatial practice construct imaginations of space & condition practices in space.
“worlds where real elements are arranged and introduced in an interpretable system whereby individuals or collectivities on one side and the earth on the other are harmoniously arranged in a coherent fashion” (Debarbieux)
Geography formed an epistemic apparatus of collecting and processing spatial data in the service of the state, theoretical discourse provided the nation with an imaginary identity by interpreting national culture and history as the result of people’s engagement with the singular conditions, structures, and processes of their terrestrial habitats (Tang)
Geographical Imaginations
15. Classification & Material Effects
Detail of Halifax map extracted from Plate 39, 1st Edition of the Atlas of Canada (1906) showing the location of the Insane and the Poor Asylums
Infirmities Category of Unsound Mind, Schedule 1 Nominal Return of the Living of the 1871 Census, Nova Scotia (CCRI, 2012)
16. Hacking – Framework of ‘making up people’
How scientific classification brings into being new kinds of people who conceive and perceive themselves as that kind and new kinds of spaces that people believe are true kinds
1.The category or classification and the category and classification as an object
2.How it came into being
3.How it becomes a convention
4.What is actually being measured
5.And how the thing measured gets put to work
18. Spaces and People
•Real people get classed and eventually start to self-identify according to the class.
•Things get mapped, and the way people envision and then act upon the things mapped.
•Ex: Indian Reserve or spaces defining clusters of people mapped by their Status Indian designation.
19. Institutions
•the Canadian census and the Atlas of Canada, NRCan, StatCan or the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), place people where they belong, and tax them, manage them or dispense compensation accordingly.
•use the work of enumerators, accountants and cartographers, who work within structured bureaucracies as administrators, to firm up the classifications and manage the infrastructures to do so.
20. Knowledge
•Cartographer’s professional knowledge, and the institution that commissioned the map.
•Maps are knowledge representations, showing where kinds of people are located. They model regions, and by doing so, model what is possible in certain places.
•The characteristics of people of different origins can also be represented in maps, and census commissioners, enumerators and administrators were instructed by way of manuals on how to classify the people they were to count.
•These characteristics once mapped, create clusters, islands, zones, or kinds of spaces, and a new type spatial knowledge that could be acted upon by experts.
21. Experts
•Census Commissioners once bemoaned that it was:
deemed advisable to depart from the ordinary way of enumerating people, in regard of Indians; the objections to such a course were several, the primary one being the difficulties in regard to languages which was insurmountable; besides there is an excellent authority for stating that an attempt to enumerate the Indians in the regular manner would tend to excite them; that they would not understand the real object and would be sure to attribute it to a wrong and perhaps mischievous motive, so that the only way was deemed to call in the aid of the different agents, who have a record of all Indians receiving supplies and treaty payments from the Government (Dept. Agriculture.1886:xvi).
24. Counting
•In the post-Napoleonic era, counting became part of the ‘avalanche of printed numbers’ (Hacking, 2007).
•Census taking grew in earnest in the colonies of France and Britain, particularly in Canada, which is lauded as having the first systematic census in the world: the 1665-1666 Census of New France conducted by Jean Talon.
•Natural resources, such as trees, were also counted according to particular classification schemes.
25. Quatify
•Scales, baselines, thresholds, or traits and characteristics.
•The Body Mass Index (BMI) generated new kinds of people quantified within four BMI classifications: underweight, normal, overweight and obese.
•Number of people considered bilingual;
•the areal extent of climatic regions as per the Thronthwaite Classification system used in the Atlas of Canada,
•the mapping of clusters of trees into forested ecozones.
26. Norms
•Adolphe Quetelet’s average man and Georges Canguilhem’s study of “the normal and the pathological showed how medicine acquired the concept of normalcy not long after 1800” (Hacking, 2007:308).
•It is about discovering the norm within a classification.
•Foucault’s “analyses of the discourses of medicine and psychiatry, for example, showed the importance of discourses in constructing and maintaining social norms, in turn shaping individual identities by delimiting and conditioning thoughts and actions” (Foucauldian Sharpa & Richardson, 2001:197).
•Trees, in Canada were eventually classified into vegetation ecozones which became a normal way to map, characterize and understand forests.
27. Correlation
•Correlation is the statistical process developed by Francis Galton who made “deviation from the mean the core of his social philosophy” (Hacking, 2007). According to Hacking, the less we know about a category the more we search for correlations.
•Ex: a BMI between 25 and 30 now defines what is overweight, and being overweight is thought to be bad as it correlates with numerous risk factors, which are themselves statistical entities (Hacking, 2007).
•Spatial autocorrelation, factorial analysis of satellite images image, interpolation are some of the methods used to map and assess spatial relationships.
28. Taking action
•Social or environmental actions may be taken once a space is classified in a certain way.
•The empires featured and categorized earlier became international organizations such as APEC, or the Commonwealth
•Actions are taken either to manage the new relationships between former colonies, or to exploit resources, or to remediate damaged areas.
•Once actions are taken, spatial arrangements change, which changes the spaces classified, in turn changing the class, which is part of the looping effect.
29. Scientification
•Once a classification has been scientifically and authoritatively accepted, adopted and normalized, how a class, a space or a kind of thing is understood changes.
•Ex: a species is scientifically classed as being in danger of extinction, hunters change their behaviour toward hunting that species & Park officials change how they manage that species’ habitat.
31. Normalization
•Normalization is the process of making “unfavourable deviants as close to normal as possible” (Hacking, 2007:309). i.e. making fat people thin
•Once a region has been deemed suitable for agriculture, or is classified as an ecozone, it becomes normalized as such in the minds of farmers, planners, foresters and any others who are making economic plans.
•Once a neighbourhood in a city has been normalized or imagined as impoverished or crime ridden, real estate spatial practices begin to form.
•Once categories are normalized, they become conventional, standardized and bureaucratized.
The seven classes of the Booth maps of poverty, (1898- 1899):
32. Bureaucracy
•Managing, controlling or surveying people, requires criteria in order to administer kinds of people and spaces.
•Insurance companies penalize obese people, considered to be a bad risk, and use the BMI to assess that risk.
•Population health experts may map incidences of BMI in a city, and results may inform the development of targeted programs and services to reduce or maintain certain levels, or normalize obese children into thin children.
•Bureaucracy has a way to standardize, “codify, embody, or prescribe ethics and values, often with great consequences for individuals [or spaces] (consider standardized testing in schools, for example)” (Star & Lampland, 2000:5).
•Once the process is in place, it is quite difficult to change.
33. Resistance
•Resistance is the action taken by people who have been classified, because the “kinds of people who are medicalized, normalized and administered, increasingly try to take back control from the experts and the institutions, sometimes by creating new experts, [and] new institutions” (Hacking, 2007:310).
•Ex. Homosexuality: gay gene, deprogramming of gay youth, DMS reclassification as normal behaviour in 1973, gay pride, gay people
37. Framework complementarities
•Kitchin’s Socio-Technical Data and Data Infrastructure Assemblages structures the examination of data & infrastructure landscapes or ecosystems
•Making up People and Spaces Framework allows for an examination of how datasets and their infrastructures shape the city and how the city is shapes them
42. 4 Map Topics
Examining the particularities of classifying to assess if spaces were made up, specifically these aspects of the Hacking framework:
•counting
•quantifying
•norms
•correlation
•taking action and
•scientification
•3 derived engines & the 5 elements
•Relief – fundamental layer
•Forest – biogeographical feature of vegetation
•Communication Infrastructure – human built feature
•Territorial Evolution – shape and extent of the territory
63. Research
Data
Canada
Archiving, Management and Preservation of Geospatial Data
National Consultation on Access to Scientific Data Final Report (NCASRD)
2010
1990
1995
2000
2005
National Data Archive
Consultation
(SSHRC)
Stewardship of Research Data in Canada: A Gap Analysis
The dissemination of government geographic data in Canada: guide to best practices
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology
Toward a National Digital Information Strategy: Mapping the Current Situation in Canada (LAC)
Canadian Digital Information
Strategy (CDIS)
(LAC)
IPY
1985
2014
Open Data Consultations
Mapping the Data Landscape: Report of the 2011 Canadian Research Data
Summit
Digital Economy Consultation,
Industry Canada
Community Data Roundtable
Privacy (Geo)
Sensitive Data (Geo)
Resolution of
Canada’s Access to Information and
Privacy
Commissioners
Geomatics Accord Signed Canadian Geospatial Data Policy
Liberating the Data Proposal
VGI Primer
Cloud (Geo)
OD Advisory Panel
OGP
G8
Subjectivities & Forms of Knowledge
• Policies
• Reports
• Proposals
• Recommendations
• Consultation
2008
64. 2010
1990
1995
2000
2005
1985
2014
Data
Liberation
Initiative (DLI)
Geogratis Data
Portal
GeoBase
Canadian Internet
Public Policy Clinic
Maps Data and Government Information Services (MADGIC) Carleton U
GeoConnections
GeoGratis
Census Data Consortium
Canadian Association of Research Libraries
(CARL)
Atlas of Canada Online (1st)
CeoNet Discovery Portal
Research Data Network
How'd they Vote
CivicAccess.ca
Campaign for
Open
Government
(FIPA)
Canadian Association of Public Data Users
Datalibre.ca
VisibleGovernment.ca
I Believe in Open Campaign
Change Camps Start
Nanaimo BC
Toronto
Open Data Portals
Edmonton
Mississauga launches open data
Citizen Factory
B.C.'s Climate Change Data Catalogue
Open Parliament
DatadotGC.ca
Ottawa
Ottawa, Prince George, Medicine Hat
Data.gc.ca
Global TV
Hansard in XML
Langley
Let the Data Flow
GovCamp
Fed. Expenses
Montreal Ouvert
Fed.Gov. Travel and Hospitality Expenses
London
Hamilton
Windsor
Open Data Hackfest
Aid Agency
Proactive.ca
DataBC
Hacking
Health
14 Cities
Quebec
Ontario
OGP
3 Cities
Alberta
G8
Community Data Program
FCM Quality of Life Reporting System
Geographic and Numeric Information System (GANIS)
Materialities / Infrastructures
• Consortia
• Portals/Catalogs
• Maps
• Open data/Open Gov Events
2009
65. The Dublin Dashboard includes:
•real-time information
•time-series indicator data
•& interactive maps about all aspects of the city
Benefits:
•detailed, up to date intelligence about the city that aids everyday decision making and fosters evidence-informed analysis.
Freely available data sources:
•Dublin City Council
•Dublinked
•Central Statistics Office
•Eurostat
•government departments
•links to a variety of existing applications
Produced by:
•The Programmable City project
•All-Island research Observatory (AIRO) at Maynooth University
•working with Dublin City Council
Funded by :
•the European Research Council (ERC)
•Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
66. References: Tracey P. Lauriault, 2012, Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations. Ph.D. Thesis, Carleton University, Ottawa, available at http://curve.carleton.ca/theses/27431 Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault, Small Data, Data Infrastructures and Big Data , The Programmable City Working Paper 1, Social Science Research Network, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376148 Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault, 2014, Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work, The Programmable City Working Paper 2, Social Science Research Network, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2474112 Tracey P. Lauriault, 2014, Republic of Ireland’s Open Data Strategy: Observations and Recommendations, The Programmable City Working Paper 3, Available at http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/republic-of-irelands- open-data-strategy-observations-and-recommendations / Tracey P. Lauriault and Peter Mooney, 2014, Crowdsourcing: A Geographic Approach to Public Engagement, Programmable City Working Paper 6, Social Science Research Network, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2518233 Tracey p. Lauriault, 2014, Big Data Series: Critical Analysis of the Irish Big Data Skills Report, Programmable City, available at http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/2014/05/big-data-series-critical-analysis-of-the-irish-big-data- skills-report Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault, 2014, Small data in the era of big data, GeoJournal, available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10708-014-9601-7 Programmable City Blog, http://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/progcity/
67. Slide Image References
References:
Slide 13:
Blue Marble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble
Slide 15:
MAP: http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/65705e0e-3e40-53c0-83de-e4c116215cd7.html
Form: Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI), 2011, Scanned Copies of Census Schedules and Questionnaires for 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941, 1951, accessed November 7, 2011 from http://www.canada.uottawa.ca/ccri/CCRI/1871.html
Slide 17:
Map: http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/8c1daad5-7996-5d6a-8405-fea284b960ea.html
Slide 22:
Map http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/fe5cf14e-5081-5c43-9822-a6da6ef5d326.html
Slide 38:
All editions of the Atlas of Canada
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives.html
Slide 43 Maps:
Comparison of Scales http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/2c775dd3-afcc-58c5-8e4d-ae78732f4c27.html
Aeronautical charts http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/4e7bad54-07ba-5a95-8d6e-06dda1ae0644.html
Soil Survey MAP http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/88bbfdae-ebb5-5f0a-ac00-fca53a5cab7a.html
Hydrographic Charts http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/d0d4d7ba-9cf0-54fb-be4b-91d34e79402d.html
Slide 44 Relief Maps:
1st - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/3a2a53cf-601b-59fe-869a-6cf48f4128d9.html
2nd - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/fafd16ef-758c-5191-acd4-640b60dce25e.html
3rd - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/c2a8e406-d3c2-57f3-9a8a-00b958321904.html
4th - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/286d5217-417f-5a6d-a64d-466b7243c6d0.html
4th http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/72f27100-f336-523d-8c19-805ef9072c6d.html
5th - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/ab08f720-0c12-5070-83dc-88494d5cb041.html
6th - http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/de9f0b51-8893-11e0-9adb-6cf049291510.html
Slide 45 Relief map:
http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/72f27100-f336-523d-8c19-805ef9072c6d.html
Slide 47 Image:
Environment Canada (EC), 1981, Ecological Land Survey Guidelines for Environmental Impact Analysis, Ecological Land Classification Series Number 13, Environmental Conservation Service Task Force, Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada.
Slide 48 Maps:
1st – Telephone Eastern http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/5b42eb72-e4aa-5dad-ab1f-0d8321782e90.html
2nd - Telegraphs – Ontario and Quebec [circa 1915] http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/d56eb458-b2bb-5141-a11a-1cbddbe85c96.html
3rd – Television & Radio http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/a22cfecd-3087-5517-8ea3-2256e7524547.html
4th - Communications, 1967 – Eastern Canada http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/0d77ce53-eb4e-5690-9a73-576c59ab4098.html
5th - Telecommunications Systems, 1984 http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/90557e57-a555-51c1-ac99-2da53b6099af.html
Slide 49 Maps:
http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/atlas/archives/english/1stedition/economic/transportationandcommunications/page10.pdf
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~250659~5517163:No-10,-Telegraphs---Quebec-and-Mari
Slide 50 Maps:
1st – Territorial Divisions http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294049
1st – International Boundaries East http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294069
2nd – Territorial Divisions http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294103
2nd – International Boundaries West http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294091
3rd – Mapping the Coasts, 1492 to 1874 http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294212
3rd – Political Evolution 1763- 1949 http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/fulle.web&search1=R=294195
4th - Territorial Evolution of Canada, 1667 to 1873 http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/ae607339-800b-50d7-8d1e-4309d17d10c3.html
4th - Territorial Evolution of Canada, 1876 to 1949 http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/17827eb0-5fb4-5c31-a237-b1625237a204.html
5th - Territorial Evolution, 1867 to 1981 http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/6414750b-6aea-51ce-8fc6-1a90e4a57d82.html
6th - Territorial Evolution, 1867 to 1999 http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/history.html
6th - New France circa 1740 http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/cb3fa1f0-8893-11e0-8e20-6cf049291510.html
Slides 53-57 Maps:
Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Royal Commission on, 1965, A Preliminary Report, Ottawa: the Queen’s Printer.
Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Royal Commission on, 1967, Volume I, Ottawa: The Queen’s Printer.
Bilingual Districts Advisory Board, 1971, Recommendations of the Bilingual Districts Advisory Board March 1971, Ottawa: Information Ottawa.
Bilingual Districts Advisory Board, 1975, Report of the Bilingual Districts Advisory Board, Ottawa: Information Ottawa.
Slide 62 Images:
DPER/Insight, 2014, Best Practices Handbook, http://per.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/Best-Practice-Handbook.pdf
Life Cycle Management of Digital Datasets (Digital Curation Centre) http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model
Image by GeoConnections Canada, shared via email, http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geomatics/canadas-spatial-data-infrastructure/geospatial-communities/federal
Slides 63-64 Timelines:
Timeline Produced by: Tracey P. Lauriault, for Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin, 2014, A genealogy of data assemblages: tracing the geospatial open access and open data movements in Canada, AAG Session 4204, Data-based living: peopling and placing ‘big data, Tampa, Florida, April 11 2014