{"id":311,"date":"2015-06-25T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=311"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:57:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T08:57:27","slug":"capta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/capta\/","title":{"rendered":"Capta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Etymologically the word <strong>data<\/strong> is derived from the Latin <em>dare<\/em>, meaning \u2018to give\u2019. In this sense, data are raw elements that can be abstracted from (given by) phenomena \u2013 measured and recorded in various ways. However, in general use, data refer to those elements that are taken; extracted through observations, computations, experiments, and record keeping <small>(Borgman 2007)<\/small>. Technically, then, what we understand as data are actually <strong>capta<\/strong> (derived from the Latin <em>capere<\/em>, meaning \u2018to take\u2019); those units of data that have been selected and harvested from the sum of all potential data <small>(Kitchin and Dodge 2011)<\/small>. As Jensen <small>(1950: ix, cited in Becker 1952: 278)<\/small> states:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:10px 20px 10px 20px;\">\nit is an unfortunate accident of history that the term datum&#8230; rather than captum&#8230; should have come to symbolize the unit-phenomenon in science. For science deals, not with \u2018that which has been given\u2019 by nature to the scientist, but with \u2018that which has been taken\u2019 or selected from nature by the scientist in accordance with his purpose.<\/div>\n<p>The data revolution, Rob Kitchin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etymologically the word data is derived from the Latin dare, meaning \u2018to give\u2019. In this sense, data are raw elements that can be abstracted from (given by) phenomena \u2013 measured and recorded in various ways. However, in general use, data refer to those elements that are taken; extracted through observations, computations, experiments, and record keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[35,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}