{"id":431,"date":"2015-05-13T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T00:35:30","slug":"from-information-to-meta-knowledge-in-china-theta2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/from-information-to-meta-knowledge-in-china-theta2015\/","title":{"rendered":"From Information to Meta Knowledge in China #theta2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Information to Meta Knowledge: Embracing the Digitally and Computable Open Knowledge Future<\/strong> (abstract<\/a>)
\nDr. Xiaolin Zhang, Director, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science<\/p>\n

Background:
\nIn China average distance of a user to a library is 1000km. Main body of students is graduate students. No broad variety of courses – taught what advisors know.
\nChinese Academy of Sciences now taking lead in research and innovation, education etc – dividing institutes into four categories: centres for Excellence; for Innovation; for Big Science Facility; for Special [regional] Needs.<\/p>\n

National Science Library coordinates institutional libraries. From beginning of digital library development taking an “e-first” approach to push resources to where researchers are. Federated searching, integrated browsing, ChinaCat, ILL, real-time digital reference. Most print subscriptions cancelled. Can’t subscribe to everything for everyone so organising consortia.<\/p>\n

Subject librarians embedded in research institutes. Information analysts. Embedded info systems.<\/p>\n

Challenge now:
\nPrint-based communication is a mistake borne out of historical practicality. Knowledge is inherently multi-media. Only e-journals are real journals; only smart books are real books. Transition from subscription journals to open access journals. <\/p>\n

Research more inter-disciplinary, collaborative, open. Means most researchers are ignorant of most of the stuff they’re working on! Great need for research informatics: have to quickly analyse unfamiliar field. Tech trends: the machine is the new reader. <\/p>\n

What’s the place of the library? Embed in R&D processes: environmental scanning, idea and design testing, data management and analysis, etc. Analyse needs of researchers – not just those in lab (need help with search and retrieval) but also primary investigators (help with discovering, exploring, designing) and deans and directors (help with trend-detecting, road-mapping). Variation between kinds of institutes too. Have to work out who needs what.<\/p>\n

So repurposing the library: informational productivity; R&D win by analytics; support open innovation. Huge focus on open accessUser-driven digital information systems – knowledge mapping services and research profiling services based on institutional repositories.<\/p>\n

Building teams with domain knowledge – resources for data mining, networks of experts, embedded mechanisms. Hiring scientists more than library school graduates. (Library school recruits from undergrads so these students have no STEM background. Traininable over 5 years but need them to work in field now. Suggesting library school change structure to get needed experience in there.) Developing from a collection library to a creation library to a R&D knowledge service provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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