The librarian in the treatment of data from the e-science: initial considerations

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação

Universidade de Brasília¹  Cunha, Murilo Bastos da¹  Costa, Maira Murrieta¹ 

关键词: Cyber infrastructure;    Data deluge;    Digital library;    e-;    science;    Fourth Paradigm;    Information Science;    Librarian;    Open data;    Collaborative research;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1981-5344/1900

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais * Escola de Biblioteconomia

【 摘 要 】

The article contextualizes the emergence of the term e-science and the technologies needed to support collaborative research of the XXI Century. It argues that data collected by technological instruments such as telescopes, satellites, specialized sensors constitute scientific information and therefore must be treated in order to facilitate their recovery, diffusion and preservation to assist in the development of future research. Discuss the role of the information professional in the treatment of data from e-science. It demonstrates that librarians from the United States and the United Kingdom are already aware of the need for this new type of treatment given. The objective of the study was to identify the basic skills necessary for the information professional who will organize the collection originated from e-science.

【 授权许可】

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