Abstract
Christopher Erdmann, Head Librarian, Wolbach Library, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shares his multiple experiences at the University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian eScience Symposium, as well as current challenges he sees for data science librarians. Christopher presented on a panel at the Eighth Annual eScience Symposium discussing the “future of data science” from a librarian’s perspective. See the video of this panel presentation on the <a href="http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2016">2016 eScience Symposium website</a>. A transcript of this interview is available for download via the Download button above.
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Christopher presented on a panel at the Eighth Annual eScience Symposium discussing the “future of data science” from a librarian’s perspective
When I was asked to participate on the panel, it was an honor, and it was a subject area that I was very interested in — professional development in Correspondence: Christopher Erdmann: cerdmann@cfa.harvard.edu Keywords: eScience Symposium, professional development, data science, astrophysics
I always found it is — I am not sure why it is, but one thing I would hope would happen for future symposiums or what would happen in our community in general is that we start having conversations with people in the open humanities and digital humanities, and the data sciences, and really bring these groups together, because I think we have similar challenges
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