Lecture
From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters
- Christine Borgman and Paul Groth
- Date
- Friday 22 May 2026
- Time
- Explanation
- This lecture will take place in-person at the library as well as online.
- Location
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University Library
Witte Singel 27
2311 BG Leiden
We are pleased to announce that Christine Borgman (University of California, Los Angeles) and Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk about their recent paper in the Harvard Data Science Review, titled "From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters".
The presentation explores the social fabric of data sharing and reuse. In an original contribution published in the Harvard Data Science Review, the authors identified six dimensions that influence the ability to transfer knowledge embedded in data effectively, considering how these dimensions may decrease – or increase – distances to be traversed between data creators and data reusers. This joint presentation is based on the article, From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters, the nine commentaries that accompanied the article, and the authors response, titled “Infrastructure, Intermediaries, and Artificial Intelligence”.
For more information see: see Borgman, C. L., & Groth, P. (2025). Infrastructure, Intermediaries, and Artificial Intelligence: A Rejoinder to Commentaries on “From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters". Harvard Data Science Review, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.35d32cfc
Organisation and registration
This talk, jointly organised by the CWTS, the Leiden University Libraries' Centre for Digital Scholarship, and DANS, will take place both in person at the library and online. Please register through the registration form.
About the speakers
Christine L. Borgman conducts research in scientific data practices and information policy. Her publications in information studies, computer science, communication, and law include three award-winning books from MIT Press and more than 300 journal articles, conference papers, and other scholarly products. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Member of the American Academy for Arts and Science, she has held visiting posts at Oxford, Harvard, and several European institutions. Professor Borgman is a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council and the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Paul Groth conducts research into intelligent systems for the integration and use of diverse data, with a particular emphasis on data provenance. He is Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab) at the Informatics Institute. He is also the co-founder and CTO of longform.ai.