Preserving algorithmic systems: a synthesis of overlapping approaches, materialities and contexts

IF 1.7 3区 管理学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of Documentation Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI:10.1108/jd-09-2022-0204
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PurposeThis article aims to advance a multifaceted framework for preserving algorithms and algorithmic systems in an archival context.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on a review and synthesis of existing literature, during which the authors observe emergent themes. After introducing these themes, the authors follow each theme as manifest in existing digital preservation projects, starting with algorithms' earliest conceptual starting points and moving up through themes' eventual implementation within a complex social environment.FindingsThe authors find current literature is largely divided between that which addresses algorithms primarily as computational artifacts and that which views them instead as primarily social in nature. To bridge this gap the authors propose that “the algorithm,” as the algorithm is frequently deployed in popular discourse, is best understood as not as either the algorithm's technical or social components, but rather the sum total of both.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited by its methodology as a literature review. However, the findings point toward a new framing for future research that is less divided in terms of social or material orientation.Practical implicationsCreating multifaceted records of algorithms, the authors argue, enables more effective regulation and management of algorithmic systems, which in turn help to improve their levels of fairness, accountability, and trustworthiness.Originality/valueThe paper offers a wide variety of case studies with the potential to inform future studies, while contextualizing the studies together within a new framework that avoids prior limitations.
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保存算法系统:重叠方法、材料和背景的综合
本文旨在提出一个在档案环境中保存算法和算法系统的多方面框架。设计/方法/方法本文基于对现有文献的回顾和综合,作者在此过程中观察到新兴主题。在介绍了这些主题之后,作者按照每个主题在现有的数字保存项目中体现出来,从算法最早的概念起点开始,然后通过主题在复杂的社会环境中的最终实现。作者发现,目前的文献在很大程度上分为两种,一种认为算法主要是计算人工制品,另一种认为算法主要是社会性质的。为了弥合这一差距,作者提出,“算法”,因为算法经常在流行话语中被部署,最好不是被理解为算法的技术组件或社会组件,而是两者的总和。研究局限性/启示:作为文献综述,本研究受到其方法的限制。然而,这些发现为未来的研究指明了一个新的框架,即在社会或物质取向方面划分较少。作者认为,创建算法的多方面记录可以更有效地监管和管理算法系统,从而有助于提高它们的公平性、问责性和可信度。原创性/价值本文提供了各种各样的案例研究,有可能为未来的研究提供信息,同时在一个新的框架内将研究放在一起,避免了先前的限制。
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Journal of Documentation
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期刊介绍: The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly information sciences, encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to: ■Information science, librarianship and related disciplines ■Information and knowledge management ■Information and knowledge organisation ■Information seeking and retrieval, and human information behaviour ■Information and digital literacies
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