Louise Corti, Director of Collections Development and Producer Relations at the UK Data Service, updates us on her recent trip to Gandhinagar, India, where she ran workshops on research data management and came up with a very cool dream about how chatbots can help prepare research data management plans for bidding to research councils in the future….
I was privileged to be invited to run a workshop as part of the 2017 CLSTL International Conference on Changing Landscapes of Science and Technology Libraries in Gandhinagar in the province of Gujarat, North uae rcs data West India in March. Gandhinagar is a relatively new city and a new Gujarat International Finance Tec-City is an under construction as a central business district between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, a project of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
The event was organised by Dr. T.S. Kumbar of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, and brought together some 150 library professionals and researchers from Institutes of Science, Technology (S&T) and allied areas from across India and abroad. The aim of the event was to exchange ideas, new initiatives, experiences, research work, and best practices in S&T Libraries and to view how they are transforming themselves in the midst of rapid technology developments. Areas of focus included cancer research, space and nuclear fusion, geomagnetism, rural management, engineering and law. Dr Kumbar is the chief librarian at IIT Gandhinagar, with a long line of experience in various prominent technical libraries in India including IIT Mumbai, Chennai and Gulbarga.