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October 3, 2022 by Gary Price

Research Article (Preprint): “Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and Researchers”

October 3, 2022 by Gary Price

The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. 

Title

Are We Building the Data Discovery Infrastructure Researchers Want? Comparing Perspectives of Support Specialists and Researchers

Authors

Guangyuan Sun
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tanja Friedrich
German Aerospace Center, Scientific Information, Cologne, Germany

Kathleen Gregory
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; School of Information Studies and Scholarly Communications Lab, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Brigitte Mathiak
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

Source

via arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.14655

Abstract

Data discovery practices currently tend to be studied from the perspective of researchers or the perspective of support specialists. This separation is problematic, as it becomes easy for support specialists to build infrastructures and services based on perceptions of researchers’ practices, rather than the practices themselves. This paper brings together and analyze both perspectives to support the building of effective infrastructures and services for data discovery. This is a meta-synthesis of work the authors have conducted over the last six years investigating the data discovery practices of researchers and support specialists, like data librarians.

Source: 10.48550/arXiv.2209.14655

We bring together data collected from in-depth interview studies with 6 support specialists in the field of social science in Germany, with 21 social scientists in Singapore, an interview with 10 researchers and 3 support specialists from multiple disciplines, a global survey with 1630 researchers and 47 support specialists from multiple disciplines, an observational study with 12 researchers from the field of social science and a use case analysis of 25 support specialists from multiple disciplines. We found that while there are many similarities in what researchers and support specialists want and think about data discovery, there are some differences we have identified, most notably the interconnection of data discovery with web search, literature search and social networks. We conclude by proposing recommendations for how different types of support work can address these points of difference to better support researchers’ data discovery practices.

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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