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Geoffrey C. Bowker

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Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He moved to UCI at the start of 2012, having held the positions of Professor and Senior Scholar in Cyberscholarship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information.

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	Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star 3.97 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens by Nicolas Nova (Editor), Geoffrey C. Bowker (Contributor), Alexandre Monnin (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society by Yanni Alexander Loukissas, Geoffrey C. Bowker (Foreword) 4.03 avg rating — 40 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory Practices in the Sciences (Inside Technology) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Big Ditch: Politics, Ecology, and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal by Ashley Carse, Geoffrey C. Bowker (Editor), Paul N Edwards (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star by Geoffrey C. Bowker (Contributor), Stefan Timmermans (Editor), Adele E. Clarke (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940 (Inside Technology) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work (Computers, Cognition and Work Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arranger les choses - Des conséquences de la classification by Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan L. STAR, Vincent Cardon (Translator) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In general, classificatory work practices involve politics, kinds of both prototypical and Aristotelian classifications, and deletion of the practices in the production of' the final formal record.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

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“Second, different designers of the classification system have different needs, and the shifting ecology of relationships among the disciplines using the classification will necessarily be reflected in the scheme itself.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

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“The two basic problems for any overarching classification scheme in it rapidly changing and complex field call be described as follows. First, any classificatory decision made now might by its nature block off valuable future developments.”
― Geoffrey C. Bowker, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

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