After describing how the UKDS does its business, and how Institutional Repositories are faring in the UK, the new Indian Data Service (also located at Gandhinagar at INFLIBNET) showcased its new service and statistical data-browsing tool. with a readiness exercise for RDM in participants’ own libraries, an exercise we designed for our ICPSR summer school course.
As information practitioners and knowledge specialists, the sector is ready to engage with the challenges of the data deluge and how research skills are adapting to fully exploit this ever-growing amount of uae rcs data information. The sector is understandably hesitant, feeling that they need the skills to understand and handle research data in all its flavours, yet also excited to move forward to extend their skills in managing and curating collections. Some I met already worked in highly technical areas, like cancer research, space and nuclear research, and had very good domain knowledge.
At the end of the last RDM session I encouraged the audience to collaborate, inviting them not to go back to their organisations and work on introducing RDM ideas themselves, but to do some early thinking while the post-conference creativity juices were still flowing – then come together to exchange needs, challenges and ideas, and to create groups with strengths in key areas.