Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science.
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2020Corporate Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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This report looks at the human resource requirements for data intensive science. The main
focus is on research conducted in the public sector and the related challenges and training
needs. Digitalisation is, to some extent, being driven by science and at the same time it is
affecting all aspects of scientific practice. Open Science, including access to data, is being
widely promoted and there is increasing investment in cyber-infrastructures and digital
platforms but the skills that are required by researchers and research support professionals
to fully exploit these tools are not being given adequate attention. The COVID-19
pandemic, which struck as this report was being finalised, has served to emphasise the
critical importance of data intensive science and the need to take a strategic approach to
strengthen the digital capacity and skills of the scientific enterprise as whole. This report
includes policy recommendations for various actors and good practice examples to supp.....
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OECD PublishingParis, France
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OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers;90Document Language
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https://doi.org/10.1787/e08aa3bb-en.Citation
OECD (2020) Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science. Paris, France, OECD Publishing, 63pp. (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers, No. 90). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1787/e08aa3bb-en.Collections
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