e Science USA/Australia

Paul Sheehan

Director of Library Services

Dublin City University

JSCG IATUL Seminar on e science

21 November 2008

e Science USA

From a presentation at IATUL annual conference, AucklandNew Zealand, April 2008, by:

James L MullinsDean of Libraries & Professor of Library Science

Purdue UniversityMember of IATUL Board

http://www.iatul.org/doclibrary/public/Conf_Proceedings/2008/JamesMullins.pdf

E Science USA

Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future, October 2008 Proceedings from the ARL/CNI Fall ForumOctober 16-17, 2008Arlington, Virginia

http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum08proceedings.shtml

E Science USAClifford Lynch

• Libraries must investigate changing research practice• Data must be contextualised by software, workflow etc.• How to manage software which manage data• Data must be available for re-use, not simply preserved• Change of scale will lead to change in way we do things• …will also lead to more institutional collaboration• More specialisation of roles in libraries• Library has a role in establishing values – intellectual property issues, public v private data, availability of government funded data, standards.

eResearch Australia

From a presentation at IATUL annual conference, AucklandNew Zealand, April 2008, by:

Rhys FrancisExecutive Director

Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council

http://www.iatul.org/doclibrary/public/Conf_Proceedings/2008/RhysFrancis.pdf