The Data Deluge
Can Libraries Cope with E-Science?
Gerald George editor Deanna B Marcum editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:19th Nov '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Welcome to the exhilarating world of E-science, the new research mode that takes advantage of digital technology to assemble and process vast amounts of data-and to deliver that data via powerful, highly distributed network capabilities. But what does this mean for libraries? How should they rethink and retool themselves in order to provide ongoing access to the growing body of E-science?
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.
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. The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-Science? brings together nine of the world’s foremost authorities on the capabilities and requirements of E-science, offering their perspectives to librarians hoping to develop similar programs for their own institutions.
The essays contained in The Data Deluge were adapted from papers first delivered at the prestigious annual Library Round Table at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where E-science has been the theme from the past two annual conferences. Now this groundbreaking work is available in convenient printed format for the first time. The essays are divided into three parts: an overview of E-science challenges for libraries; perspectives on E-science; and perspectives from individual research libraries.
- Comprises essays from nine expert contributors—each an innovator who has successfully integrated E-science programs at their institutions
- Includes bibliographies to additional readings and resources about E-science
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"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
ISBN: 9781591588870
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142 pages