Contribuições do bibliotecário para a ciência de dados

Abstract

This work has the general objective of analyzing the role and contributions of the librarian to data science, in order to identify a new field of activity presenting the competencies, skills and similarities of data librarianship and data science. The following specific objectives were sought: to relate aspects of data science to librarianship, to identify skills and abilities of the librarian's training to work in data science and to present areas of knowledge necessary for the librarian's specialization in data science. The study was developed in an exploratory manner, under a qualitative approach, using as technical procedures bibliographic research and data collection with the completion of a questionnaire. Data collection was carried out from a brief survey on LinkedIn in search of librarians who worked in data science and the objective of the questionnaire was to collect professional experiences of the participants about how was the insertion and adaptation in a new area of the knowledge. As a result, it is inferred as a potential field of action for librarians, however, there is a need for continuing and specialized education in areas such as statistics and technologies by librarians who wish to enter data science.