Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, will chair a symposium to address this question in a session during the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13). What Is a Data Scientist? will be held on Tuesday 15 January 2013.
She will be joined by panel members Francine Bennett, Data Analyst, Mastodon C, Louise Corti, Data Steward, UK Data Archive, Scott Edmunds, Data Publisher, Gigascience and Stephanie Wright, Data Librarian, University of Washington Libraries.
Please note that the current registration fee will increase from Tuesday 11 December 2012, so remember to register now.