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IDCC13: What’s in a name? The ‘data scientist’ symposium

sarah.jones — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:03:41 +0000

The IDCC symposium this year was on ‘What is a data scientist?’ After some shuffling of chairs, Liz Lyon opened proceedings with a quick show of hands on who thought they were a data engineer, data analyst, data librarian, data steward, data journalist or data publisher? Data librarian and data steward got the biggest response, but would these people call themselves data scientists? Or are there other terms they would use?

IDCC13 Preview: Hans Pfeiffenberger

magdalena.getler — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:06:09 +0000

The 8th International Digital Curation Conference is just around the corner and we are anticipating great discussions about data science when our international audience gather in Amsterdam in January 2013.

In the eighth of our series of preview posts, Hans Pfeiffenberger from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, gives us his insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Francine Bennett

magdalena.getler — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:32:48 +0000

In the eighth of our series of preview posts, Francine Bennett from Mastodon C, gives us her insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Scott Edmunds

magdalena.getler — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:29:09 +0000

In the seventh of our series of preview posts, Scott Edmunds from GigaScience/BGI HK, gives us his insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Herbert Van de Sompel

magdalena.getler — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:22:19 +0000

In the sixth of our series of preview posts, Herbert Van de Sompel from Los Alamos National Laboratory, gives us his insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Patricia Cruse

magdalena.getler — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:57:40 +0000

In the fifth of our series of preview posts, Patricia Cruse from the California Digital Library, gives us her insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Stephanie Wright

magdalena.getler — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:00:25 +0000

In the fourth of our series of preview posts, Stephanie Wright from University of Washington Libraries, gives us her insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Kaitlin Thaney

magdalena.getler — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:34:43 +0000

In the third of our series of preview posts, Kaitlin Thaney from Digital Science, gives us her insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Anthony Beitz

magdalena.getler — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:50:51 +0000

In the second of our series of preview posts, Anthony Beitz from Monash eResearch Centre, gives us his insights into some of the current issues...

IDCC13 Preview: Kevin Ashley

magdalena.getler — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:53:13 +0000

In the first of our series of preview posts, DCC's Director Kevin Ashley, gives us his insights into some of the current issues...

You are a conference co-chair. Are there any specific messages would you like people to take away from the conference?