Libraries as e-infrastructure

Abstract

Libraries as e-infrastructure 215Libraries have served as education and research infrastructures for centuries. In this paper, we will describe major opportunities and future challenges in the context of digital research and the »e-infrastructures« that are required for e-science. We will provide examples of current involvements and focus on the importance of cooperation at local, international, specifically European, and global scale.Bibliotheken fungieren seit Jahrhunderten als Bildungs-und Forschungsinfrastrukturen. In dem vorliegenden Aufsatz werden die Chancen und Herausforderungen von digitalen Forschungsumgebungen und von -für die sogenannte E-Science benötig-ten -E-Infrastrukturen erörtert. Es werden aktuelle Beispiele beschrieben; außerdem wird aufgezeigt, wie wichtig Kooperation auf lokaler, internationaler, speziell europäischer Ebene in diesem Zusammenhang ist.

New alliances for research and teaching support: establishing the Göttingen eResearch Alliance

“…iii Libraries rarely partner in these initiatives. Libraries should be seen and become active in this new role, supporting these new types of e--infrastructures (see Horstmann et al, 2014;Lossau, 2012). The European policy on research infrastructures as reflected in the ESFRI roadmap is continued and consolidated in Horizon 2020, the European Commission's framework program for research and innovation which started in January 2014. iv In selected program areas, research data resulting from funded projects are subject to the policy and funding framework of the Open Research Data Pilot.…”