The Data Deluge by Deanna B Marcum
An essential collection of essays for librarians looking to support E-science programs and capabilities to their institutions. From the frontiers of contemporary information science research comes this helpful and timely volume for libraries preparing for the deluge of data that E-science can deliver to their patrons and institutions.
"These essays present ground-breaking information on this topic and will be of professional interest to practitioners of information science and instructors teaching information science" - ARBAonline
"Increasingly scientists pursue their craft at keyboards, pulling data from a vast network of sensors such as telescopes and weather stations and research reports from past or present wet-workers in laboratories, fields, and the like. Library professionals here ask who will acquire, evaluate, manage, and preserve all these sets of data for as long as they are needed; who will maintain the infrastructure that makes it all possible; who will provide access points; and who will explain to these scientists how to use the system. They highly suspect that research libraries will play a large role, and that librarians had better be prepared. They begin by reviewing such aspects as an agenda for action, and academic libraries in science data set management and scholarly communication for domain sciences and engineering. Then they offer perspectives from national organizations such as the Council on Library and Information Resources, and from individual research libraries such as Johns Hopkins University." - SciTech Book News
"Increasingly scientists pursue their craft at keyboards, pulling data from a vast network of sensors such as telescopes and weather stations and research reports from past or present wet-workers in laboratories, fields, and the like. Library professionals here ask who will acquire, evaluate, manage, and preserve all these sets of data for as long as they are needed; who will maintain the infrastructure that makes it all possible; who will provide access points; and who will explain to these scientists how to use the system. They highly suspect that research libraries will play a large role, and that librarians had better be prepared. They begin by reviewing such aspects as an agenda for action, and academic libraries in science data set management and scholarly communication for domain sciences and engineering. Then they offer perspectives from national organizations such as the Council on Library and Information Resources, and from individual research libraries such as Johns Hopkins University." - SciTech Book News
Deanna B. Marcum is associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Gerald George is the former executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781591588870 |
| ISBN 10 | 1591588871 |
| Title | The Data Deluge |
| Author | Deanna B Marcum |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2009-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 142 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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