@article {Bowker2000Biodiversity,
	title = {Biodiversity Datadiversity},
	journal = {Social Studies of Science},
	volume = {30},
	number = {5},
	year = {2000},
	month = {October},
	pages = {643{\textendash}683},
	abstract = {Biodiversity is a data-intense science, drawing as it does on data from a large number of disciplines in order to build up a coherent picture of the extent and trajectory of life on earth. This paper argues that as sets of heterogeneous databases are made to converge, there is a layering of values into the emergent infrastructure. It is argued that this layering process is relatively irreversible, and that it operates simultaneously at a very concrete level (fields in a database) and at a very abstract one (the coding of the relationship between the disciplines and the production of a general ontology). Finally, it is maintained that science studies as a discipline is able to (and should) make a significant contribution to the design of robust and flexible databases which recognize this performative character of infrastructure. 10.1177/030631200030005001},
	keywords = {biodiversity, biodiversity-informatics},
	doi = {10.1177/030631200030005001},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631200030005001},
	author = {Bowker, Geoffrey C.}
}
