Presentations from the 2nd EDISON Data Champions konference in March 2017 - together with Lorna Wildgaard, PostDoc at IVA

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2. Data Scientist training 4 Librarians
- experiences from Denmark
Jeannette Ekstrøm Lorna Wildgaard
jeek@dtu.dk lorna.wildgaaard@hum.ku.dk
Senior Information Advisor PostDoc

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DST4L – the back story
Data Science Training for Librarians (DST4L) is a
community founded by Christopher Erdmann back in 2011,
while he was employed as Chief Librarian at Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge.
The concept is practical hands-on training and development
of skills for librarians working with data
(cleaning, managing, sharing, visualising).
Multiple workshops were held in the US before the concept
came to Denmark in 2015.
Teaching librarians to be data scientist - 2013

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The reason DST4L training is important
In the good old days
– a programmer would write a program,
– a user would use the program,
– a statistician would analyze the data that the user produced
with the program,
– and a librarian would archive the report that the statistician
created by analyzing the data.
Those days are gone. The reason we now see lots of job
advertisements for “data scientist” is that there is a pressing
need for interdisciplinary bridge builders who understand
all of the above: the Internet, databases, analytics, visualization,
and data curation.
https://ischool.syr.edu/infospace/2012/07/16/data-science-whats-in-it-for-the-new-librarian/

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Scandinavia: what is being published on data
science in LIS journals
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USA: What is being published on data science
in LIS journals
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Focus on skills

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Mediation and promotion

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Getting our ”hands dirty” with intense DST4L training

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Partners in crime

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Funding was self sourced

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GitHub was used to create the webpages
http://www.dst4l.info

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Output from DST4L 2016 is available here
http://www.dst4l.info/toolbox

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A Danish network has been established
As of March 1st 2017 in collaboration with the
Danish Library Union.

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Python – Do not be afraid of snakes

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Next steps in Education
• A certified adult education at IVA is under
development, targeted teachers, nurses, librarians,
admininstrators – everyone that wants to gain and develop
skills in Data Librarianship
• Skills students need to meet the challenging demands of
the information marketplace.
• Improving teacher support in the development of data-
curation, -hosting, -analysis and -training activities
and also in the creation of communities and building
spaces for in-class exercises.

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Next steps in Library Practice
• A need for more workshops and study groups – for
librarians and administrators as well as for researchers and
students – everyone that wants to gain and develop skills
in Data Librarianship
• Skills students need to meet the challenging demands of
the information marketplace.
• Improving teacher and researcher support in the
development of data-curation, -hosting, -analysis
and -training activities and also in the creation of
communities and building spaces for in-class exercises.

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Even hardcore software developers
value our skills
A Day in a Librarian´s life – as code
Presented at DST4L 2016 by Lars Kruse, Co-founder of PRAQMA

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References
• DST4L 2016 Toolbox – http://www.dst4l.info/toolbox.html. (2017)
• Erdmann, C. (2014). Teaching Librarians to be Data Scientists. Information Outlook,
18, 21–24.
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11217
• Erdmann, C. (2015). Data Scientist Training for Librarians. Library and Information
Services in Astronomy VII: Open Science at the Frontiers of Librarianship - ASP
Conference Series, 492, 31–37.
http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=36774
• Elbæk, M. K. (2016). Get your hands dirty! Data Scientist Training for Librarians in
Denmark. Revy, 39(1), s. 15-16.
http://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/revy/article/view/4976
• Sutherland, L. & Wildgaard, L. (2016) The evolution of the information professional:
thoughts on innovations in “Librarianship” and practical solutions for future candidates
from IVA. Revy, 39(1), s. 17-18
• Svendsen, M., Bøgh Pedersen, K., Ekstrøm, J., & Wildgaard, L. E. (2017).
Databibliotekaren kommer. Revy, 40(1), 24.
http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/revy/article/view/5280/5710

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