Abstract
In recent years, the availability and volume of scientific data have grown exponentially. Research funding bodies encourage or even require open publication not only of the research results, but publication of the data involved as well.
Data sharing is an essential component of the direction in which science is moving). This situation creates a need for training in data literacy, a set of competencies that can be defined as the component of information literacy that enables individuals to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, handle and ethically use data.
The situation in the Czech Republic in the field of scientific data and data literacy has not been assessed so far. The goal of our study, based on an extensive survey, is therefore to describe the creation and usage of scientific data in the Czech Republic on the example of the Charles University in Prague.
Charles University is the biggest university in the Czech Republic with more than 4000 academics and 6000 PhD students in a wide variety of subjects.The research was carried out as a part of Data Literacy Multinational Study cooperation. We have used a Czech version of data literacy questionnaire presented on the and distributed it to Charles University academics and PhD students.