Corrall, Sheila
(2016)
Big Data 2.0: Critical Roles for Libraries and Librarians.
In: 36th Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, 02 November 2016 - 05 November 2016, Charleston, SC.
Abstract
Big Data is a live issue in e-commerce and market intelligence, e-government and politics, national security, and smart healthcare; a key feature of digital scholarship and open science; and an emergent concern for education and the cultural heritage sectors. Big Data 2.0 raises the stakes: the convergence of e-science with business intelligence, crowdsourcing, data analytics, social media, and Web2.0 technologies allows broader and deeper applications, involving cooperative processing of structured and unstructured data. Hype around the “data talent gap” highlights a shortage of candidates for data science jobs with the requisite computational and analytical skills, but informed observers point to an equally critical need for competence in digital curation to ensure proper stewardship of data, best done by institutions with preservation know-how. Libraries already provide data literacy education, research data services, data mining support, and open linked data, but should now engage with the Big Data initiatives launched in the US and globally as collaborative, interdisciplinary, cross-sector endeavors predicated on large-scale community participation. The session will explain how data-intensive research is moving to new levels of technical and organizational complexity, promising advances in human knowledge for the benefit of society, but raising critical issues for institutions and individuals relevant to information professionals. It will describe salient characteristics of Big Data megaprojects and explore opportunities for library involvement. Participants will be invited to share experiences of Big Data and consider potential responses to the challenges presented. They will gain fuller understanding of large-scale big data projects and their implications for libraries.
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| Date: |
7 November 2016 |
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Publication |
| Event Title: |
36th Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition |
| Event Dates: |
02 November 2016 - 05 November 2016 |
| Event Type: |
Conference |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Information Sciences > Library and Information Science |
| Refereed: |
No |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
big, data, information, specialists, libraries, open, science, professional, development |
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https://2016charlestonconference.sched.org/event/8... |
| Additional Information: |
Presentation slides presented at the 36th Charleston Conference and related material (presentation references and bibliography). |
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08 Nov 2016 17:27 |
| Last Modified: |
25 Aug 2017 04:56 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/30220 |
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