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basic data demonstration platform; 5) Develop instrumental datasets, and provide basic data
services on request to the public for free; 6) Enacting open data sharing policies to encourage
crowd sourcing and open access; 7) Educate data librarian and train data personnel to curate and
analyze data; 8) Strengthen international exchanges and integrate into a comprehensive national
and global data infrastructure. At the institutional level, all types of libraries and cultural memory
institutions are able to contribute to infrastructure building while carrying out their own research
and developmental projects. It requires the industry to build a certain coordination mechanisms
and follow certain technical standards and protocols.

Data governance: Opportunity for the library

KU Liping ①a *
The approach of technology-driven development has made great achievement in the past few
years. Nowadays,the data-driven discovery is becoming a new route of scientific progress,which
makes “innovation driving development,data driving innovation” possible.
However,opportunities and challenges exist side by side. The key is to put the slogan into
practice. We need to address three questions. 1)Who would do it? In other words,whom we are
going to serve? 2)What are current obstacles—which means what are currently hindering their
development—and what can we do to help them? 3) How can we put it into practice,namely,the
distance between imagination and reality? In other words,how can we become more mature?
Data governance will create new employment opportunities and potential economic growth. New
protagonists would be scientists and engineers who pay more attention to data,a new generation
of data scientists,data engineers who create data values,data analysts who create added value and
citizen scientists. Data librarians are probably the most important supporting players.
Data access governance is a form of data governance which depends on national administrative
orders,funding agencies’ policies and regulations of research institutions and universities to make
research data open access. People who can help implement policies are in need. Obviously,it is
difficult for librarians to adjust themselves from information management to data management,but
not out of the question.
Data sharing environment is another form of data governance which includes different
disciplines and is provided with infrastructure. Data centers,data clouds,data repositories,data
journals,IT centers,and digital resource centers are tools for data storage and services rather
than methods of governance. Librarians who have experience in managing carriers of different
disciplines and knowledge in data rights management are able to assist in handling information
services under contracts,agreements,commercial licenses and open licenses,and are also able to

* Correspondence should be addressed to KU Liping, Email: gulp@mail.las.ac.cn,ORCID:0000-0002-2284-3856