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==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
In the context of e-science and open access, visibility and impact of scientific results and data have become important aspects for spreading [[information]] to users and to the society in general. The objective of this general trend of the economy is to feed the innovation process and create economic value. In our institute, the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Irstea, the department in charge of scientific and technical information, with the help of other professionals (scientists, IT professionals, ethics advisors, etc.), has recently developed suitable services for researchers and their data management needs in order to answer European recommendations for open data. This situation has demanded a review of the different workflows between databases, questioning the organizational aspects among skills, occupations, and departments in the institute. In fact, data management involves all professionals and researchers assessing their workflows together. | In the context of e-science and open access, visibility and impact of scientific results and data have become important aspects for spreading [[information]] to users and to the society in general. The objective of this general trend of the economy is to feed the innovation process and create economic value. In our institute, the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Irstea, the department in charge of scientific and technical information, with the help of other professionals (scientists, IT professionals, ethics advisors, etc.), has recently developed suitable services for researchers and their data management needs in order to answer European recommendations for open data. This situation has demanded a review of the different workflows between databases, questioning the organizational aspects among skills, occupations, and departments in the institute. In fact, data management involves all professionals and researchers assessing their workflows together. | ||
Keywords: data management, datasets, databases, data publication, skills, services, e-science, open data | |||
==Introduction== | |||
Irstea, the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, is a public research institute under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Agriculture in France. Irstea has built a multidisciplinary and systemic approach to three domains: water, environmental technologies and territories, which today form the basis of its strength and originality. The appropriation of scientific results is a very important mission of the institute. It wants to be a link between practitioners and scientists and represents a collaborative space dedicated to the co-construction of knowledge. | |||
With exponential growth and massive data production in all areas of science, management and recovery of data becomes, in the digital age, a crucial issue in technical, scientific and economic policy. These evolutions affect the production and use of scientific information, and consequently they impact on the practices of information professionals at several levels: | |||
* Technical: for the increasingly rapid evolution of software tools, IT infrastructures and practices; and | |||
* Organizational and behavioral: new approaches leading to new modes of production and development of scientific and technical production. | |||
This requires an important adaptation of skills and missions of scientific and technical information (STI) professionals.<ref name="ALATheState14">{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/content/2014-State-of-Americas-Libraries-Report.pdf |format=PDF |title=The State of America's Libraries: A Report from the American Library Association |work=American Libraries |author=American Library Association |pages=79 |date=2014 |accessdate=18 November 2016}}</ref> In fact they are expected to serve more closely the different requirements for data processing, reporting and disseminating.<ref name="MacMillanData14">{{cite journal |title=Data Sharing and Discovery: What Librarians Need to Know |journal=The Journal of Academic Librarianship |author=MacMillan, D. |volume=40 |issue=5 |pages=541–549 |year=2014 |doi=10.1016/j.acalib.2014.06.011}}</ref> These new missions are quite natural in the continuity of the usual accompanying activities (training and local support) made by librarians from the scientific teams.<ref name="SchmidtLibrarians16">{{cite web |url=https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Competencies-for-RDM_June-2016.pdf |format=PDF |title=Librarians' Competencies Profile for Research Data Management |author=Schmidt, B.; Shearer, K. |pages=7 |date=June 2016 |accessdate=18 November 2016}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Full article title | Data management: New tools, new organization, and new skills in a French research institute |
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| Journal | LIBER Quarterly |
| Author(s) | Martin, Caroline; Cadiou, Colette; Jannès-Ober, Emmanuelle |
| Author affiliation(s) | National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture |
| Primary contact | Email: caroline dot martin at agrenium dot fr |
| Year published | 2017 |
| Volume and issue | 27(1) |
| Page(s) | 73–88 |
| DOI | 10.18352/lq.10196 |
| ISSN | 2213-056X |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.10196/ |
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Abstract
In the context of e-science and open access, visibility and impact of scientific results and data have become important aspects for spreading information to users and to the society in general. The objective of this general trend of the economy is to feed the innovation process and create economic value. In our institute, the French National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, Irstea, the department in charge of scientific and technical information, with the help of other professionals (scientists, IT professionals, ethics advisors, etc.), has recently developed suitable services for researchers and their data management needs in order to answer European recommendations for open data. This situation has demanded a review of the different workflows between databases, questioning the organizational aspects among skills, occupations, and departments in the institute. In fact, data management involves all professionals and researchers assessing their workflows together.
Keywords: data management, datasets, databases, data publication, skills, services, e-science, open data
Introduction
Irstea, the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, is a public research institute under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Agriculture in France. Irstea has built a multidisciplinary and systemic approach to three domains: water, environmental technologies and territories, which today form the basis of its strength and originality. The appropriation of scientific results is a very important mission of the institute. It wants to be a link between practitioners and scientists and represents a collaborative space dedicated to the co-construction of knowledge.
With exponential growth and massive data production in all areas of science, management and recovery of data becomes, in the digital age, a crucial issue in technical, scientific and economic policy. These evolutions affect the production and use of scientific information, and consequently they impact on the practices of information professionals at several levels:
- Technical: for the increasingly rapid evolution of software tools, IT infrastructures and practices; and
- Organizational and behavioral: new approaches leading to new modes of production and development of scientific and technical production.
This requires an important adaptation of skills and missions of scientific and technical information (STI) professionals.[1] In fact they are expected to serve more closely the different requirements for data processing, reporting and disseminating.[2] These new missions are quite natural in the continuity of the usual accompanying activities (training and local support) made by librarians from the scientific teams.[3]
References
- ↑ American Library Association (2014). "The State of America's Libraries: A Report from the American Library Association" (PDF). American Libraries. pp. 79. http://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/content/2014-State-of-Americas-Libraries-Report.pdf. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
- ↑ MacMillan, D. (2014). "Data Sharing and Discovery: What Librarians Need to Know". The Journal of Academic Librarianship 40 (5): 541–549. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2014.06.011.
- ↑ Schmidt, B.; Shearer, K. (June 2016). "Librarians' Competencies Profile for Research Data Management" (PDF). pp. 7. https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Competencies-for-RDM_June-2016.pdf. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
Notes
This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation. In some cases important information was missing from the references, and that information was added. The original article lists references alphabetically, but this version — by design — lists them in order of appearance.
