For me, it is important to participate in events like these to take research findings outside the academy, but also to inspire pupils to think about what is possible for them in terms of their future education and careers. I will definitely be looking at more opportunities to engage younger audiences with research findings in the future.
A panel of senior librarians discussed issues, with live questions being taken using WeChat, a social media platform. Questions raised included collection usability, size, and the role indonesia rcs data of data editing; all topics familiar to the UK Data Service.
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My talk was on managing and sharing data in social science, focusing on more historical data.
‘Think before Digitising’ was welcomed, where cataloguing and box-listing are done first, followed by digitising on demand, preferably with scholars funding the work.
Linking a scholar to a collection before making it digital is a good strategy, as was done for the UK Data Service Digital Futures project.
My intro slide
Following my talk, we heard from Zhang Jing, deputy director of Fudan University Library, and executive deputy director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, on the position of humanities and social science data at Fudan University.
He recounted that this year China’s Ministry on Science and Technology has published positive mandates on FAIR, GDPR and Scientific Data Management Regulations as national policies.