TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract The authors analyse the development and implementation of the standard for the Legal Entity Identifier as a case of creating information-based assets through the establishment of an infrastructure that certifies the accuracy and validity of identity data. The authors term this process capitalization by certification. The findings describe a process whereby an identification infrastructure – including a non-replicable methodology for assessing data quality – is established that contributes to making the developer and controller of that methodology, an irreplaceable intermediary for users of the infrastructure; this in spite of the need for an associated reference data infrastructure to be open and widely accessible to all participants for the infrastructure to be successful. The findings indicate that in the process, assets are created on the basis of openly accessible data through certifying of a desired set of qualities to be achieved by adopters and the infrastructure. This, in turn, provides a starting point toward better understanding and theorizing of wider processes of data capitalization, encountered throughout the digital economy but which are also crucial to establishing information infrastructures that support cognitive action.
VL  - 62
SN  - 978-1-78769-558-0, 978-1-78769-557-3/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000062008
AU  - Millo Yuval
AU  - Panourgias Nikiforos S.
AU  - Zachariadis Markos
ED  - Martin Kornberger
ED  - Geoffrey C. Bowker
ED  - Julia Elyachar
ED  - Andrea Mennicken
ED  - Peter Miller
ED  - Joanne Randa Nucho
ED  - Neil Pollock
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Capitalization By Certification: Creating Information-Based Assets Through the Establishment of an Identification Infrastructure
T2  - Thinking Infrastructures
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 131
EP  - 143
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -