Curating research data: The potential roles of libraries and information professionals
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Curating research data : The potential roles of libraries and information professionals. / Nielsen, Hans Jørn; Hjørland, Birger.
I: Journal of Documentation, Bind 70, Nr. 2, 11.02.2014, s. 221-240.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Curating research data
T2 - The potential roles of libraries and information professionals
AU - Nielsen, Hans Jørn
AU - Hjørland, Birger
N1 - This paper is a product of the research project "viden i spil"
PY - 2014/2/11
Y1 - 2014/2/11
N2 - Purpose – A key issue in the literature about research libraries concerns their potential role in managing research data. The aim of this paper is to study the arguments for and against associating this task with libraries and the impact such an association would have on information professionals, and consider the competitors to libraries in this field.Design/methodology/approach – This paper considers the nature of data and discusses data typologies, the kinds of data contained within databases and the implications of criticisms of the data-information-knowledge (DIK) hierarchy. It outlines the many competing agencies in the data curation field and describes their relationships to different kinds of data.Findings – Many data are organically connected to the activities of large, domain-specific organizations; as such, it might be difficult for research libraries to assume a leadership role in curating data. It seems more likely that the qualifications of information professionals will come to be needed in such organizations and that the functions of research libraries will shift toward givinggreater prevalence to their role as specialists in scholarly communication. In some cases, however, research libraries may be the best place to select, keep, organize and use research data. To prepare for this task, research libraries should be actively involved in domain-specific analytic studies of theirrespective domains.Originality/value – This paper offers a theoretical analysis and clarification of the problems of data curating from the perspective of research libraries.
AB - Purpose – A key issue in the literature about research libraries concerns their potential role in managing research data. The aim of this paper is to study the arguments for and against associating this task with libraries and the impact such an association would have on information professionals, and consider the competitors to libraries in this field.Design/methodology/approach – This paper considers the nature of data and discusses data typologies, the kinds of data contained within databases and the implications of criticisms of the data-information-knowledge (DIK) hierarchy. It outlines the many competing agencies in the data curation field and describes their relationships to different kinds of data.Findings – Many data are organically connected to the activities of large, domain-specific organizations; as such, it might be difficult for research libraries to assume a leadership role in curating data. It seems more likely that the qualifications of information professionals will come to be needed in such organizations and that the functions of research libraries will shift toward givinggreater prevalence to their role as specialists in scholarly communication. In some cases, however, research libraries may be the best place to select, keep, organize and use research data. To prepare for this task, research libraries should be actively involved in domain-specific analytic studies of theirrespective domains.Originality/value – This paper offers a theoretical analysis and clarification of the problems of data curating from the perspective of research libraries.
KW - Research Data
KW - Academic libraries
U2 - 10.1108/JD-03-2013-0034
DO - 10.1108/JD-03-2013-0034
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
SP - 221
EP - 240
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
SN - 0022-0418
IS - 2
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