[Irtalk] Moving a brick building: UK libraries coping with research data management as a ‘wicked’ problem

[Hilton Gibson]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the value to librarians of seeing
research data management as a ‘wicked’ problem. Wicked problems are unique,
complex problems which are defined differently by different stakeholders
making them particularly intractable. Data from 26 semi-structured in-depth
telephone interviews with librarians was analysed to see how far their
perceptions of research data management aligned with the 16 features of a
wicked problem identified from the literature. To a large extent research
data management is perceived to be wicked, though over time good practices
may emerge to help to ‘tame’ the problem.

http://lis.sagepub.com/content/48/1/3.full
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