Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science
This report looks at the human resource requirements for data-intensive science, focusing
primarily on research conducted in the public sector, and the related challenges and
training needs. Digitalisation is, to some extent, being driven by science, while
simultaneously affecting all aspects of scientific practice. Open science, including
access to data, is being widely promoted, and investment in cyber-infrastructures
and digital platforms is increasing; but inadequate attention has been given to the
skills that researchers and research support professionals need to fully exploit these
tools. The COVID-19 pandemic, which struck as this report was being finalised, has
underscored the critical importance of data-intensive science and the need for strategic
approaches to strengthening the digital capacity and skills of the scientific enterprise
as a whole. The report includes policy recommendations for various actors and good
practice examples to support these recommendations.
Available from July 10, 2020
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