In the age of the web of data: first open data, then big data

Review of the concepts and technologies associated with the transition from a web of documents to a web of data. The role that public and academic libraries are playing or may play about big data, open data, and linked open data is described. The strategic importance of open data and linked open data (LOD) for the future of libraries is emphasized

FAIR4Health: la gestión de datos de investigación en salud

Dades de recerca; Accés obert; Ciència obertaDatos de investigación; Acceso abierto; Ciencia abiertaResearch data; Open access; Open scienceTreball presentat durant la intervenció de l'autor a la taula rodona: "Ciència Oberta: com gestionar i publicar en accés obert i suport a la gestió de dades de recerca en obert”. Es presenta el projecte FAIR4Health, sobre la gestió de les dades de recerca en salut. Exposa el concepte de dades FAIR, en què consisteixen i quins són els seus principis i característiques. Justifica la necessitat de la seva utilització en la recerca de les ciències de la salut, i explica alguns serveis innovadors d'esalut basats en la reulització de dades FAIR

Ethics and digital maximalism: Requirement for critical thinking about technologies

Information technologies have changed our lives, this includes new ways to generate, collect, and process large volumes of information. Big data are in the hands of large companies that delegate the management of data to algorithms and artificial intelligence programs that play a part in deciding who is the most suitable candidate for a job or who should receive mortgage credit. All this generates new ethical dilemmas; therefore, the existence of digital humanists becomes increasingly necessary. Philosophers, historians, and thinkers with knowledge and a critical vision of technology become the ones who alert and help us understand the limits and consequences of the use of big data

Ciencia abierta: políticas científicas de palos y zanahorias

El término “ciencia abierta” fue acuñado en 2003 por el economista Paul David para describir las propiedades de los bienes científicos generados por el sector público, en oposición a la extensión de la percepción de los derechos de propiedad en el área de los bienes de información

Social sciences and humanities research data and metadata: A perspective from thematic data repositories

This paper studies research data repositories in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), from the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data), paying particular attention to metadata models used to describe the datasets included in them. 397 repositories are reviewed at the general level, including those of a multidisciplinary nature. We discuss and reflect on the special features of research data in these disciplines, and on coverage and information collected by re3data. The metadata schemas and standards most commonly used in SSH repositories are analyzed, with special emphasis on the six main repositories

Social sciences and humanities research data and metadata: a perspective from thematic data Repositories

This paper studies research data repositories in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), from the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data), paying particular attention to metadata models used to describe the datasets included in them 397 repositories are reviewed at the general level, including those of a multidisciplinary nature. We discuss and reflect on the special features of research data in these disciplines, and on coverage and information collected by re3data. The metadata schemas and standards most commonly used in SSH repositories are analyzed, with special emphasis on the six main repositories

Research data services (RDS) in Spanish academic libraries

Research data services (RDS) are actions undertaken to provide researchers with support, advising, training, information, a technological infrastructure and a regulatory framework with respect to research data management (RDM) throughout the life cycle of the data. The implementation of RDS is an activity that is becoming increasingly important within the functions carried out by academic and research libraries. The aim of this study is to provide a snapshot of the research data services implemented in academic libraries in public universities in Spain, identifying the number and types of services deployed. We conducted a Website Content Analysis of the libraries of the 48 Spanish public universities to discover which RDS they are implementing and promoting. The results show that, despite a lack of institutional policies regarding research data, libraries are deploying these new services, albeit unevenly in terms of both the number of services and the type of support provided. Services related to development of the data management plan (DMP) and preservation of the data in repositories predominate. This inventory is presented as a first step towards learning the level of RDS implementation in Spanish academic libraries, providing a partial perspective and leading the way to exploring other aspects in greater depth in future studies.This work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid-Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of Excellence of University Professors (EPUC3M02), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation)

Open access: el papel de las bibliotecas en los repositorios institucionales de acceso abierto

Nowadays, there are more and more institutional repositories in Spain, as in a large number of countries all over the world, which contains thousands of digital objects in open access, full-text, at no-charge and available to free download, print or copy. Nearly every repository is managed and mantained by the library services of the institution they serve. This article explains the reasons for the crisis in the scholarly communication model, the alternative model based on open access to scholarly publication, and the key role that the libraries can play in the development of their own digital collections, a challenge and a chance that they can't miss