Managing Research Data

摘要

The digital age has brought significant change to the way research is undertaken. E-Research, typified by collaboration, the use of grid computing and being data intensive; may have started in science with large data sets being collected from CERN (the Large Hadron Collider) but it is increasingly common in many disciplines, e.g. the digital humanities and the Canterbury earthquakes. As the editor indicates in the preface, information technology has made the academic research community increasingly self sufficient. The role of the information professional in supporting researchers in this environment can be fuzzy. The University Library has responded with initiatives like the institutional repository, providing a wealth of scholarly outputs on open access, but can more be done in terms of data management?