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Research Data Management and Data Literacies

  • 1st Edition - October 31, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Koltay Tibor
  • Language: English

Research Data Management and Data Literacies help researchers familiarize themselves with RDM, and with the services increasingly offered by libraries. This new volume looks at… Read more

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Research Data Management and Data Literacies help researchers familiarize themselves with RDM, and with the services increasingly offered by libraries. This new volume looks at data-intensive science, or ‘Science 2.0’ as it is sometimes termed in commentary, from a number of perspectives, including the tasks academic libraries need to fulfil, new services that will come online in the near future, data literacy and its relation to other literacies, research support and the need to connect researchers across the academy, and other key issues, such as ‘data deluge,’ the importance of citations, metadata and data repositories.

This book presents a solid resource that contextualizes RDM, including good theory and practice for researchers and professionals who find themselves tasked with managing research data.

Key features

  • Gives guidance on organizing, storing, preserving and sharing research data using Research Data Management (RDM)
  • Contextualizes RDM within the global shift to data-intensive research
  • Helps researchers and information professionals understand and optimize data-intensive ways of working
  • Considers RDM in relation to varying needs of researchers across the sciences and humanities
  • Presents key issues surrounding RDM, including data literacy, citations, metadata and data repositories

Readership

Researchers and professionals who find themselves tasked with managing research data

Table of contents

Introduction
The growing importance and challenges of using digital data in research
Big data, small data, the lack of data, smart data
Changing views on the nature of data
The pyramid of hierarchical views
Is data identical with information?

Open data, research data

The age of new literacies
Converging literacies
Technological and sociocultural convergences
Information literacy
Media literacy
Media and Information Literacy
Overarching literacies and multiliteracies
“Mother and child” information literacy and data literacy
Similarities and differences
“Brothers in arms” data literacy and research data literacy
Lifelong, transversal learning skills, or not?

Data literacy
Information literacy and data literacy
Literacies in the post-truth society
Personal information management and data management as literacies
Information overload and data overload
Critical data literacy

Research Data Management
Planning for data management
The data lifecycle
Data creation
Data organization
Access to data
Data sharing reuse, repurposing
The role of Data Management Plans
Data storage
Data repositories

Data quality, the essential “ingredient”
Big Data quality
The role of data governance

Data librarians and data scientists
Are they competing professions? (Shared methods and differences)
Data literacy and data science
Data curators, data stewards

The educational background
Research Data Management training
Education for data literacy?
SoTL. Applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Constructivist approaches to teaching
Making use of phenomenography, discourse analysis
The “best fit”: Sociocultural theories

Some educational programs and curricula

Review quotes

"I particularly liked Koltay’s discussion of the data librarianship role and the differences between data and information (pp. 154-155). Starting from that point might inspire you to then delve into the theoretical discussions of those concepts in earlier chapters....

It might be useful for readers to note that this book is an extension of Koltay’s previous
book Research 2.0 and the future of information literacy (2016), which addressed the types of literacies relevant to researchers, particularly information literacy. While Research data management and data literacies takes this one step further into data management, it continues the theme that librarians should be involved in supporting and educating researchers."—Mary Coe, JALIA

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 31, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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Koltay Tibor

Tibor Koltay is a Professor at the Eszterházy Károly University, in the Institute of Learning Technologies, Hungary. His research interests include information literacy and data literacy, Research Data Management (RDM), and information overload. He has served as a committee member for international conferences, sits on the editorial board for several journals in library and information science, and is widely published.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Eszterházy Károly University, Institute of Learning Technologies, Hungary

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