MOVING: Training Towards a Society of Data-savvy Information Professionals

MOVING investigates how to enable people from all societal sectors to fundamentally improve their information literacy by training how to use, choose, reflect and evaluate data/text mining methods in connection with their daily research tasks. We believe that an extensive distribution of this type of information literacy education in the sense of a data-savvy information professional will have a decisive impact on the innovative capacity of the European society. 1 MOVING R&D Activities and Goals The MOVING project [2] will train people to cope with the large amount of Internet-based information they are faced with as part of their daily professional duties. We provide them technical support as well as social advice to organise, filter and exploit these information in a more efficient and sustainable way. The core challenge of our current knowledge society is not the access to information itself, but whether people have the ability to manage them in a professional way. Understanding, using and developing data mining strategies will become a basic cultural technique and will determine whether our society will succeed in exploiting the data produced and develop innovation. Therefore, the project takes one important step towards a society of data-savvy information professionals to help ensure that open leadership innovation happens. To reach this objective, we will develop the platform MOVING that is both: (a) A working environment for the quality and usability analysis of large text collections and free online contents with data mining methods equally open for people from science, public administration and business, and (b) A training environment with information, training and exchange offers in the broad field of digital information management. It is exactly that connection of technical application and curriculum that will make the platform a holistic and thus long-term successful service. Together, those characteristics form the two sides of the same coin, because they can develop their full potential only in conjunction with each other. People dealing with an ever growing flood of information need sophisticated tools that allow fast and accurate evaluation and visualisations of the analysis results. The platform can only be effective, if the persons using it at least have a basic