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Library Carpentry: Towards a New Professional Dimension (Part I – Concepts and Case Studies)


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The domain of library and information science is always on the move and LIS professionals are ardent users of emerging technologies. This research work discusses an emerging possibility in the LIS domain, which applies data science principles and techniques in the bibliographic world. The concept is known as library carpentry and involves different data wrangling techniques to get insight of bibliographic datasets. The discussion starts with the basic concepts of library carpentry and systematically reveals the components and methods of library carpentry with the help of three case studies. The case studies represent a variety of actual problem solving projects by using open datasets and open source data wrangling software called Openrefine. The case study (I) deals with the application of library carpentry in e-book selection by taking into consideration socio-academic web space data, the case study (II) shows how is it possible to quickly get an overview of institutional contributions to open access domain by applying library carpentry methods and the case study (III) demonstrates the process of gender analysis with the help of a name-to-gender inference service and by applying data wrangling techniques. Each case study is supported by a comprehensive and representative dataset to support and promote real-life problem solving in processional sphere by applying library carpentry methods.

Keywords

Application Program Interface (API), Data Carpentry, Data Wrangling, General Refine Expression Language (GREL), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Openrefine
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Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal
India

Roshni Mitra
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal
India

Mondrita Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal
India


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Authors

Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal, India
Roshni Mitra
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal, India
Mondrita Mukhopadhyay
Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235, West Bengal, India

Abstract


The domain of library and information science is always on the move and LIS professionals are ardent users of emerging technologies. This research work discusses an emerging possibility in the LIS domain, which applies data science principles and techniques in the bibliographic world. The concept is known as library carpentry and involves different data wrangling techniques to get insight of bibliographic datasets. The discussion starts with the basic concepts of library carpentry and systematically reveals the components and methods of library carpentry with the help of three case studies. The case studies represent a variety of actual problem solving projects by using open datasets and open source data wrangling software called Openrefine. The case study (I) deals with the application of library carpentry in e-book selection by taking into consideration socio-academic web space data, the case study (II) shows how is it possible to quickly get an overview of institutional contributions to open access domain by applying library carpentry methods and the case study (III) demonstrates the process of gender analysis with the help of a name-to-gender inference service and by applying data wrangling techniques. Each case study is supported by a comprehensive and representative dataset to support and promote real-life problem solving in processional sphere by applying library carpentry methods.

Keywords


Application Program Interface (API), Data Carpentry, Data Wrangling, General Refine Expression Language (GREL), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Openrefine

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