Research data management (RDM) on the horizon of academics and research libraries

Abstract

The ICT society needs, makes use of and provides an enormous amount of data; processing them, understanding them and transforming them into value decisions is the challenge of the analysis of the so-called "big data", a term used to refer to the explosion of an enormous amount and diversity of high frequency digital data, which are becoming an essential element for competition, and that according to most experts in the field will be key to productivity growth, innovation and the possibility of generating sufficient surplus for the sustainability of society. The management of research data is one of the major challenges facing scientific and research libraries in the coming years. Already haalf of American universities have a work plan on this issue, all trend reports agree that Research Data Management (RDM) will be one of the priority and future issues to be taken up by research libraries. This article analyses the state of research data management, regulations, data repositories, practices and policies that libraries are developing around the topic.