Competencies and Skills for Professional Performance in Digital Environments in Information Science

Abstract

Analysis of the skills and abilities that enable information professionals to develop their activity in a digital environment. The aim has been to examine the impact of digital technologies on the tasks they perform and on labour market structures. The background and status of the issue have been developed from the compilation and review of authoritative documentary sources with timely interest. Likewise, the consequences of digitalization on the exercise of the profession have been contrasted from the data obtained in applied works. The exhibition begins by assessing the impact of technology on disciplinary evolution, together with the characterization of the systems that interact linked in the network. To the point of proposing the generation and open dissemination of resources and the organization and recovery of semantic character. The consequences of digitization and digital management on job profiles and requirements are described. The need for specific transdisciplinary skills is justified. We are even reaching the consequences that this situation has for university education. The conclusions highlight the execution of tasks from collaborative methods of association in the network. The digital characteristics of our professions and the type of professional looking for a more complex and transdisciplinary job market are valued.