Digital Scholarship & Data Science Essentials for Library Professionals

Digital Scholarship & Data Science Essentials for Library Professionals is an open and collaboratively curated training reference resource. It aims to make it easier for LIBER library professionals and others to gain a concise overview of the new technologies that underpin digital scholarship and data science practice in research libraries today, and find trusted training materials recommendations to start their professional learning journey.

About

Digital Scholarship & Data Science Essentials for Library Professionals is a project that began in in 2023 as a joint collaboration between the Digital Scholarship & Digital Cultural Heritage (DSDCH) and the Data Science in Libraries (DSLib).

In addressing some of these issues, Digital Scholarship & Data Science Essentials for Library Professionals seeks to:

• Present a central destination for newcomers to become more familiar and conversant with the foundational concepts, methods and tools of digital scholarship and data science practice in libraries.
• Help library staff gain a better understanding of digital scholarship and data science practice in libraries by providing contextualised and gentle introductions to key topics through guides, self-guided training materials, project case studies, jargon busting and recommended reading lists
• Enable staff, in LIBER membership and beyond, to explore and immediately access a wealth of self and group study educational resources, available to them through a curated catalogue with faceted search and discovery
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional development and facilitate the development of localised training opportunities in LIBER institutions by providing guidance and training materials suitable for self and group study
• Offer a centralised, curated and trusted home for educators to contribute, and have reused, their high-quality training materials
• Raise awareness of local, national and international networks, and associated training events, relevant to delivering state of the art services in libraries
• Furnish current reports and competency skills frameworks pertaining to digital scholarship and data science in libraries

Core Project Team

This site, currently using Quarto, and content are maintained by the Co-Chairs and select Members of the collaborating WGs listed here who act as the core project delivery team and editors of this resource.

Jodie Double, Editor DSDCH
Péter Király, Editor DSLib
Nora McGregor, Editor DSDCH
Peter Verhaar, Editor DSLib

Contribute

Each Topic Guide is written by specific named contributors, if you'd like to contribute a new topic guide please visit our website. We also welcome changes and contributions to this resource via logging issues or if you’re a more seasoned GitHub user, via pull requests to this github repository.

For questions drop us a line at digitalresearch@bl.uk.