Library support to Research 2.0 in the age of data literacy
Tibor Koltay
The appearance of Research 2.0 (Science 2.0, or eScience) brought to the forefront openness and being data-intensive. Therefore, the support to researchers working in the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, offered by academic libraries must be aligned to these needs. The related tasks and roles that academic libraries need to fulfil may contain elements of data science, but are not identical with it, even if being a data scientist has been labelled as “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. The librarian does less and offers more than the data scientist. While touching on the differences between the tasks of a data librarian and that of a data scientist, this paper will focus on research data services, data literacy education and supporting individual teaching staff members.
Eszterházy Károly University in Eger, HU
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The appearance of Research 2.0 (Science 2.0, or eScience) brought to the forefront openness and being data-intensive. Therefore, the support to researchers working in the sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, offered by academic libraries must be aligned to these needs. The related tasks and roles that academic libraries need to fulfil may contain elements of data science, but are not identical with it, even if being a data scientist has been labelled as “the sexiest job of the 21st century”. The librarian does less and offers more than the data scientist. While touching on the differences between the tasks of a data librarian and that of a data scientist, this paper will focus on research data services, data literacy education and supporting individual teaching staff members.
Eszterházy Károly University in Eger, HU
[email protected]