Alternative event from iConference 2013.

1. The Problem of Data
iSchools and the New Data Professional
A Fishbowl Event
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2. The Problem of Data
Spencer Keralis Shannon Stark
Director for Digital Scholarship, Strategic Projects Librarian
Research Associate Professor UNT Libraries
UNT Digital Scholarship Co-Operative shannon.stark@unt.edu
spencer.keralis@unt.edu
@hauntologist
@UNTDiSCo
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3. Few researchers are aware of the
data services that the library might
be able to provide and seem to
regard the library as a dispensary of
goods (e.g., books, articles) rather
than a locus for real-time
research/professional support.
Jahnke and Asher 2012, 4
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4. LIS will need to develop stronger
partnerships with domain
researchers, informaticists, and
other stakeholders in the research
enterprise, to succeed at making
research data an integral and
enduring part of the information
assets retained for science and
scholarship over the long term.
Weber et al. 2011, 6
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5. Less than 8% of the [LIS] courses
qualified as data centric. Based on
course codes assigned by the
schools, these courses tended to be
new, and some did not yet appear
in course catalogs [,] being added
by institutions during the
verification process. Data centric
courses were rarely required for LIS
degrees, certificates, or other
credentials.
Varvel, Bammerlin, & Palmer, 2012, 2.
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6. Given the improbability that
students will encounter a data-
centric course in their line of study,
students must be committed to
constructing a data-intensive
education for themselves in order
to come out of most existing U.S.
LIS programs with the skills and
knowledge necessary to support
the needs of data-intensive
research.
Keralis, 2012
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7. Questions
 What are iSchools doing to  Is the MLIS the appropriate
train data professionals? degree for library jobs
supporting data-intensive
 What are institutions doing research?
to address the professional
development needs of  How can the various
librarians? constituents in the data
curation lifecycle
 What are the real skills collaborate to develop and
libraries should be foster these skills in
demanding of job emerging professionals?
candidates?
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8. datamanagement.unt.edu/fishbowl
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9. disco.unt.edu
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disco@unt.edu