Hi Nicolaie,
Thank you for your response. All very interesting, but I won't prolong the thread on the list beyond this message.
I sometimes think in terms of "traditional data librarians" and "new data librarians". Not everyone has crossed over and certainly not all new (RDM) ones know about the prior tradition. Arguably the social sciences were interested in re-using data before other disciplines, for various reasons.
In terms of changing remits, I also see a parallel with what has happened with reference librarianship. There is a reduced need for this role due to the change in environment from information scarcity to information overload (I would suggest). There is more emphasis now on conveying information literacy and filtering skills, as a result. Similarly in my data career-lifetime, we have gone from data scarcity to data deluge, hence the change in emphasis from finding and using data to managing and sharing effectively.
Apologies for calling you by your surname, I've just realised my error.
Cheers,
Robin
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Sent: 28 August 2018 13:39
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Dear Robin,
From everything I gathered, this new assignment of specialized librarians, let that be caring "data" prefix is linked to the late 60', begining of the 70's when the "data centres" started to serve the social sciences. Indeed, we are able to track back the need for a specialization within the ranks of those data keepers able to put a humanized face on the growing numbers. Tradition of organizing information hoardings is librarianship, hence a deep need to upgrade (through data literacy) of curious ones.
CESSDA is one of the pillars, and part of the European fabric (ERiC).
I will look into IFDO. Thanks for that.
IASSIST gave me the best job database that compliments my own gathered data along past 6 years or so. So it offers me the traits, the chromosomes of what would be more and more this new specialization. I will ask Mr David and Tuomas.
And, yes RDA are the ones to put a definition on this cross polination... although a bit dry.
UK is the best, I believe in terms of studies and shaping a "steward"
into a "librarian".
If anything pops on your radar, just drop a line on that, please.
Kind regards,
P.S. The Handbook is such a good thread in this labyrinth. Thank you for taking that important effort. I will read it in full as soon as possible.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 at 14:57, RICE Robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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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> Collections University of Edinburgh
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> 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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