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The literature review consists of three sections. Section 1 tries to explore and explain the origin
of data literacy which includes data-intensive scientific paradigm development, researcher’s
requirement of data curation in the research process and library’s data management service
practices, for example, data literacy education, constructing data infrastructure, setting data
librarian position. Section 2 summarizes the basic data literacy research contents as follows: 1)
data literacy concept is defined from two perspectives: one is data curation focusing on research
process, and the other focuses on research data use and reuse. 2) Researcher’s requirements of data
management consist of data creation, data storage, data organization, data citation, data publishing
and data ethics. 3) The research on users’ behaviors of data curation focuses on the researcher’s
behaviors and attitudes of scientific data publishing, citation and sharing in the research process.
4) The research projects and scholarly monographs of data literacy offer teaching materials and
guidance to education practices. The teaching cases of data literacy have the characteristics of
disciplinization and embeddedness. Teaching strategies are also an integral part of data literacy.
On the whole, the research results of data literacy have three features. Firstly, research paths
can be divided into two parts:one is data curation based on research lifecycle, and the other is
user behavior based on literacy. Secondly, theoretical research and empirical research are highly
interrelated and mutually reinforcing. Thirdly, on methodology, it focuses on the combination of
quantitative and qualitative methods, such as literature study, case study, questionnaires and in-
depth interview. Section 3 proposes an integrated framework of data literacy research according to
the characteristic of the current research content. Then it dwells on the five urgent and key research
directions, namely users’ needs and behavior of data curation, conceptual model of data literacy,
influencing factors of data literacy,data literacy education and data literacy evaluation. Meanwhile,
it illustrates the inter-relationship among the five research directions. Additionally, it presents a few
suggestions such as research view, research approach, research methods, data resource and results
application for further research.

No. 3

Information aggregation:Concept and paradigms

CAO Shujin & MA Cuichang ①a *

Aiming at bringing the dispersive information into a universal interface according to users’ needs,
information aggregation is becoming a new realm in the field of information organization and
information retrieval. Focusing on the concept of information aggregation as the starting point,
this paper proposes the core elements of information aggregation as the conceptual framework
* Correspondence should be addressed to MA Cuichang, Email: macch@mail.sysu.edu.cn,ORCID: 0000-0002-2478-4714