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The School of Information Studies (iSchool) at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., has introduced a new program (in collaboration with Cornell University Library) called " Building an eScience Librarianship Curriculum for an eResearch Future ". It is focused on creating librarians with a better understanding of eScience and the research process, as well as the new types of digital resources - in particular research data and their long term preservation and use - and how to manage them. Right now they have a call out for applications for scholarships that they have for this new program. The lack of eScience and research data savvy librarians is one of the gaps identified by the Research Data Canada and is the focus of its capacity working group.

The UK Research Information Network (RIN) and the British Library (BL) have produced an amazing report looking at the patterns of flow of data in its production and tranformation in the research process of life scientists. Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences . A report by the Research Information Network and the British Library November 2009. They have seven case studies that look at the data lifecycles of data for researchers in the following life science disciplines: Animal genetics and animal diseases Transgenesis in the chick and development of the chick embryo Epidemiology of zoonotic diseases Neuroscience Systems biology Regenerative medicine They have extended Chuck Humphrey 's data lifecycle model , and use this extended model to illustrate how the data lifecycles are expressed in these different disciplines: The diagrams (below) for the different disciplines are very revealing, and show the great deal...