Dear Constantinescu,
I think in terms of the traditional data librarian pattern, it traces to the social sciences, and in Europe there would be more often alignment with a data archivist role (e.g. from large national data archives such as GESIS in Germany, DANS in Netherlands, NSD in Norway).
Many of these organisations belong to CESSDA - https://www.cessda.eu/Consortium/CESSDA-Countries
There is also IFDO, http://www.ifdo.org/aims/ which has its strongest base in Europe.
You could also contact the elected European regional secretary of IASSIST (an international membership organisation of data professionals, traditionally associated with social sciences but apparently expanding), David Schiller, or the President Tuomas Alaterä from Finland: http://www.iassistdata.org/about/officials.html
They might be able to tell you about the spread of membership from Europe, whether it follows the pattern of the large centralised data archive staff or is now having more university librarians represented.
You would also be able to trace articles in the IASSIST Quarterly that come from European-based authors over time, perhaps - it dates back to the 1970s. https://iassistquarterly.com
Another route is the RDA group, Libraries for Research Data, which has European involvement -
https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/libraries-research-data.html
Best wishes,
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Subject: Data librarian, a shifting profile?
Dear colleagues,
At the moment, I investigate the profile of a would be data librarian and much of my search was met with plenty looking at UK, Australia and USA.
The puzzle cannot be complete as long as the European countries are not taken under scrutiny. Unfortunately besides Netherlands, I could only find traits of the elusive data librarian via Digital Humanities connection.
Part of the profile is data preservation, a pure digital preservation issue.
Is there any good source to take into account in my findings? Are you aware of any studies besides those coming from UK?
I would love to her from you on this.
Kind regards,
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Constantinescu Nicolaie
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