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Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530 The results of the PARSE.Insight Gap Analysis of the “Scientific Libraries” community confirm this danger. 72 Although it was focused on preservation of digital research data, its tendency can easily be transferred to the wider area of data integration. Overall, the PARSE.Insight Gap Analysis indicated a gap between better and less prepared libraries. This gap could be found in almost all analyzed areas: The more data a library has to store, the better it considers itself prepared and responsible for digital preservation – to the point that funding for digital preservation will be an important issue for the libraries. Another relation was shown between the amount of data stored at a library and the implementation of data and access management strategies. Libraries with preservation and selection policies in place have smaller preservation gaps (in terms of preservation strategies implemented) than those who have not. Effectively, the PARSE.Insight Gap Analysis found those libraries which were slower in addressing the problem, were far behind the “early starters” in most categories. Another, similar gap becomes apparent between disciplines: Influential, policy setting data centres do not exist in all scientific communities. A step in the right direction are two large programs implemented by the European Commission, CLARIN in the in the Linguistics and Humanities, and DARIAH in the Arts and Humanities. Substantial and sustained funding is required to develop and market new services but often there is a tendency to address novel challenges in time-limited projects. While it is absolutely necessary to initiate a first step into action that way, it puts at the same time even promising results need to progress to sustainable services and this needs to be directed by libraries and data centres in partnership with their funding bodies 73 . 4.6. Opportunities for libraries and data centres The issue of data availability and data re-usability gets a lot of attention from users, funders, and decision makers 51,74, . For libraries and data centres, this opens up the possibility to re-position themselves as complementary professional information providers in this field. In order to enable data availability, findability, interpretability and re-useability, libraries and data centres’ data managers need to be involved from the very beginning of the research process in order to ensure high data quality. 75 Datasets differ in many important ways from publications (e.g. granularity, iteration rate, data can be dynamic) and libraries must adjust to these new requirements as part of their new role. The immediate future for libraries will likely be characterised by 72 PARSE 2010: PARSE.Insight. Deliverable D4.3. Gap Analysis Final Report (2010). http://www.parse-insight.eu/downloads/PARSE-Insight_D4-3_GapAnalysisFinalReport.pdf 73 Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information. Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (2010). 74 Prepublication data sharing”, “Post-publication sharing of data and tools”, Nature: Vol 461/10 September 2009 75 Richard E. Luce (2008) Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) –www.ode-project.eu 78
Report on Integration of Data and Publications Grant Agreement no.: 261530 emerging and new roles in librarianship professions. Considering the initiatives presented in 4.4, it seems obvious that there is a need for “data librarians”. The implementation of the “Datasets Programme” from The British Library 76 illustrates action in this area. Libraries in the US like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library or Penn State University Library have already developed data management toolkits to support researchers at the proposal stage. 77 In all their actions, libraries and data centres as institutions serve the research communities. Many studies point out that researchers prefer local and discipline specific data management support and want to retain control of the data until research is published. 78 , 79 This balanced with the need to make data easily available and searchable suggesting there may be a role for libraries to act as an intermediary between researchers and larger data centres and in disciplines where there are no large data centres available, between researchers and the institutional repository. Overall, dialogue and interaction between the stakeholders is crucial and platforms to systematically enable it are desirable. 76 http://www.bl.uk/datasets 77 http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/data_services/researchdatatoolkit/index.html, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/scholar/datamanagement.html 78 SURF 2010 79 PARSE.Insight. Deliverable D3.6. Insight Report (2010). http://www.parseinsight.eu/downloads/PARSE-Insight_D3-6_InsightReport.pdf Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) –www.ode-project.eu 79
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