Slides from my closing keynote for the Talis Insight Europe 2016 conference. In this talk I cover global warming and other "extinction level events", and how we might go about preserving the core of human knowledge and culture in an offplanet backup. I show how future technologies like interstellar travel and DNA based data storage are complemented by here and now technologies like cubesats/nanosats and the likes of Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia. All of this is a metaphor for how we should "think big", and looking at the changing role of the librarian.

1. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Martin Hamilton
Photo credit: CC-BY-ND Tara Brown Photography / University of WashingtonTalis Insight Europe 2016

2. Roadmap
1. The end of the world
2. Data, data, everywhere
3. Enter the radical librarian
4. Conclusions

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www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/07/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly/

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www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/07/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly/

17. 2. Data, data, everywhere
www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/07/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly/

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23. 3. Enter the radical librarian
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Photo credit:The CropTrustPhoto CC-BY-SAWikimediaCommons user Woodwalker

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NASA PhoneSat, CC-BY Steve Jurvetson
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29. 3. Enter the radical librarian
NASA PhoneSat, CC-BY Steve Jurvetson
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NASA PhoneSat, CC-BY Steve Jurvetson

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33. 4. Conclusions
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34. 4. Conclusions
Space is (largely) a metaphor, however…
› The data “problem” is only getting bigger
– Data literacy becoming key for researchers,
students and the general public alike
› We need to develop new skills and tools to support
reproducibility and re-usable workflows
– This points to a partnership between “IT people” (e.g.
Research Software Engineers) and “Librarians”
(Information Scientists)
Picture credit: Invisible Creature, for NASA

35. 4. Conclusions
Photo CC-BY-NC-ND
Flickr user selias22
We have more power than we think…
› Universities were the original “cloud providers”
– The sector runs its own repositories and can run
its own journal platforms and university presses
› But publishers are the archivists for the back
catalogue of the scientific record
– We need to work out how to collaborate better
› We need to think big
– Let’s get started!

36. That’s all folks…
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Martin Hamilton
Futurist, Jisc, London
@martin_hamilton
martin.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk
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