Andrew Weiss

Big Data Shocks (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Big data," as it has become known in business and information technology circles, has the potential to improve our knowledge about human behavior, and to help us gain insight into the ways in which we organize ourselves, our cultures, and our external and internal lives. Libraries stand at the center of the information world, both facilitating and contributing to this flood as well as helping to shape and channel it to specific purposes. But all technologies come with a price. Where the tool can serve a purpose, it can also change the user's behavior to fit the purposes of the tool. Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals examines the roots of big data, the current climate and rising stars in this world. The book explores the issues raised by big data and discusses theoretical as well as practical approaches to managing information whose scope exists beyond the human scale.

What's at stake ultimately is the privacy of the people who support and use our libraries and the temptation for us to examine their behaviors. Such tension lies deep in the heart of our great library institutions. This book addresses these issues and many of the questions that arise from them, including:
What is our role as librarians within this new era of big data? What are the impacts of new powerful technologies that track and analyze our behavior? Do data aggregators know more about us and our patrons than we do? How can librarians ethically balance the need to demonstrate learning and knowledge creation and privacy? Do we become less private merely because we use a tool or is it because the tool has changed us? What's in store for us with the internet of things combining with data mining techniques?All of these questions and more are explored in this book

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538103241
• Artikelnr.: 51321862

Autorenporträt

Andrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge. His work is mainly concerned with developing our open access institutional repository and scholarly communication services for CSUN's faculty, staff and students. He helps with the collection of open access faculty publications, ETDs, university archives, data management and data management planning. He also provides guidance and informal advice about copyright and publisher's agreements. Andrew's area of research investigates digital publishing, digital collections, massive digital libraries (MDLs), and, lately, big data and information pathologies - including privacy, fake news and the proliferation of misinformation. He has written a previous book, Big Data Shocks, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings about MDLs, Big Data, privacy, open access, and so on. Additionally, Andrew has written about Open Access and the issues of scholarly communication, too, which also fit within the movement of open science and data management. As a long-time librarian, Andrew believes balancing the need for privacy with creating public personae in the digital world will continue to be a central problem for our profession. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: First Shocks
Chapter 1: Defining Data
Chapter 2: The Rise of Big Data
Chapter 3: The Tools and Applications of Big Data
Part II: Reality Shocks
Chapter 4: Big Data and the Issue of Privacy
Chapter 5: Corporate Overreach in the Era of Big Data
Chapter 6: Political Spying in the Era of Big Data
Chapter 7: Information Overload and Big Data
Part III: Library Shocks
Chapter 8: Big Data, Libraries, and Collection Development
Chapter 9: Data Management Planning Strategies for Libraries in the Age of
Big Data
Chapter 10: Academic Disciplines, their Data Needs, and How Libraries Can
Cater to Them
Part IV: Future Shocks
Chapter 11: Libraries and the Culture of "Big Assessment"
Chapter 12: Building the "Smart Library" of the Future