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<p>This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline, current issues with data bias and ethics, and the role that the discipline of information science may play in addressing these concerns. Information science research and researchers have much to offer for data science, owing to their background as transdisciplinary scholars who apply human-centered and social-behavioral perspectives to issues within natural science disciplines. Information science researchers have already contributed to a humanistic approach to data ethics within the literature and an emphasis on data science within information schools all but ensures that this literature will continue to grow in coming decades. This review article serves as a reference for the history, current progress, and potential future directions of data ethics research within the corpus of information science literature.</p>
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This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline, current issues with data bias and ethics, and the role that the discipline of information science may play in addressing these concerns. Information science research and researchers have much to offer for data science, owing to their background as transdisciplinary scholars who apply human-centered and social-behavioral perspectives to issues within natural science disciplines. Information science researchers have already contributed to a humanistic approach to data ethics within the literature and an emphasis on data science within information schools all but ensures that this literature will continue to grow in coming decades. This review article serves as a reference for the history, current progress, and potential future directions of data ethics research within the corpus of information science literature.

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature

Journal of Data and Information Science

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This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline, current issues with data bias and ethics, and the role that the...

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Sep 08, 2022

Page range: 16 - 38

Received: May 26, 2022

Accepted: Aug 31, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2022-0018

Keywords
Data science, Library and information science, Data ethics, Data bias, Education

© 2022 Brady Lund et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature

Article Category: Review

Published Online: Sep 08, 2022

Page range: 16 - 38

Received: May 26, 2022

Accepted: Aug 31, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2022-0018

KeywordsData science, Library and information science, Data ethics, Data bias, Education

© 2022 Brady Lund et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Data science, Library and information science, Data ethics, Data bias, Education