eSPAÑOL [A fragile episteme. Data as an object of knowledge in humanities]

Abstract

In humanities research mediated by a digital environment, data appears as a source of new objects of knowledge. This article discusses the nature of the data, how they represent objects, and what difficulties are for the data to be intelligible. To do this, we take as an example the work developed within the Ocean Exchanges project, in order to show that the data is built in layers and that in each of them its intelligibility is compromised. That is why we consider the da-ta to be epistemologically fragile and its constitution as an object of study even insufficient to give rise to a new form of knowledge.

Key words
Data; Humanities; Digital humanities; Epistemology; Algorithms