Sadia Vancauwenbergh

University of Hasselt Belgium

Sadia Vancauwenbergh is head of the Information Management and Strategic Data Analysis Unit at Hasselt University, Belgium, and Project Leader at ECOOM, an Expertise Centre for Research Development monitoring in Flanders, Belgium. She is president of euroCRIS, the International Organization for Research Information, and vice-chair of the International Society of Knowledge Organization – Low Countries Chapter. Dr. Vancauwenbergh’s research interests are focused on Open Science and CRIS systems, particularly semantic interoperability. She was a member of the EOSC Working Groups for Landscape and Skills and Training and is a convener of the EOSC Association Task Force Semantic Interoperability. She is also a member of the Commission International/Federal Cooperation on Open Science, Belgium; the Flemish Open Science Board; and chair of the FOSB Working Group Metadata & Standardization.

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Over the past decades, traditional academic library environments have transformed into digital libraries. This has resulted in many challenges for libraries in terms of the reinvention of libraries’ roles and organizations, the skill sets of librarians, and library infrastructure. At the same time, this profound transformation has opened the door to many new avenues, such as the support and advancement of Open Science. This book offers insights into the transformation of traditional library environments to digital libraries and details how digital libraries can contribute to Open Science, in particular to Open Access, FAIR and Open Data, and Open Education, by describing methods, criteria, strengths, and weaknesses as well as applications.

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Data Quality Management

By Sadia Vancauwenbergh

Data quality is crucial in measuring and analyzing science, technology and innovation adequately, which allows for the proper monitoring of research efficiency, productivity and even strategic decision making. In this chapter, the concept of data quality will be defined in terms of the different dimensions that together determine the quality of data. Next, methods will be discussed to measure these dimensions using objective and subjective methods. Specific attention will be paid to the management of data quality through the discussion of critical success factors in operational, managerial and governance processes including training that affect data quality. The chapter will be concluded with a section on data quality improvement, which examines data quality issues and provides roadmaps in order to improve and follow-up on data quality, in order to obtain data that can be used as a reliable source for quantitative and qualitative measurements of research.

Part of the book: Scientometrics Recent Advances

FAIR and Open Research Metadata as Leverage for Digital Libraries: The Flemish Case

By Sadia Vancauwenbergh

Since the advent of the digital age, academic libraries have been transforming from traditional libraries to digital libraries. While digitisation of published materials has been taking place in most libraries, research data is not yet a common good. However, in an era where the Open Science movement affectuates the modus operandi of the entire research ecosystem, it is paramount for digital libraries to include information on other digital objects such as research data. In fact, FAIR and Open research (meta)data can truly act as a leverage for digital libraries and broaden the scope of the library from a place for content consumption to a place for content creation. In order to take on this role, digital libraries must cooperate with ICT and the research community to ensure that the infrastructure is in place to store research (meta)data and that the librarians have the digital skill set for handling FAIR and Open research (meta)data. Throughout the chapter, we will elaborate on the essentials for creating a digital repository, with emphasis on the underlying metadata scheme using the Flemish application profile for research data as example. In addition, we will highlight the essential roles for operating digital libraries containing research data.

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