LWW isn’t just about information literacy, but has a broad remit covering technological and social issues relating to information, so I thought people might be interested in some of the papers. The programme began with a keynote presentation from Christine Borgman, Professor in Information Studies at UCLA. Chris emphasised that the role of data will have a significant influence on how libraries develop in future and talked about the value chain linking together publications with their research data. Her paper linked well with a following talk from Graham Pryor, who described how Project StORe has been developing middleware to provide links from output publications to source data. Graham summarised some of the advantages and disadvantages as perceived by researchers – for example, advantages include validation of experiments, ability to track research output and explore research in more detail, as well as identify collaborators. Worries were identified as fears of scavengers and misinterpretation of data.

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