IT and science: How are digital technologies revolutionizing research?

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of UK say, that “the country can only maintain its worldwide reputation for quality research, if researchers take advantage of the digital revolution”.

Today, JISC is launching a year long campaign called “Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy”, to debate how digital technologies are changing not only what research can be carried out, but how it can be carried out.

Professor David Baker, deputy Chair at JISC, says, “The way we research is changing, not slowly, not even overnight, but by the second. The UK knowledge economy is under threat; unless we continue to invest in research based upon digital technologies the UK will quickly fall behind.”

A new video, “How digital technologies are creating a new paradigm in research”, sets the agenda for the coming year and introduces the key issues such as how to share data, why collaborate and how to publish research work online.

JISC’s new Open Science report written by the Digital Curation Centre report looks at how technologies can support the sharing of data, workflows, methods and research outputs. It also illustrates the vital role librarians could have in supporting these new trends.