MOVING: A User-Centric Platform for Online Literacy Training and Learning

Scholars and professionals in various sectors of the economy, including public administrators, corporate compliance officers, and auditors, deal with an ever-increasing flow of information (new scientific publications, business documents and multimedia files, laws, etc.). They need sophisticated tools to evaluate all this information fast and accurately and to visualize the analysis results. Specifically this means that, on the one hand, they need tools that enable state-of-the-art search and semantic analysis of large digital contents, by providing: (i) access to an extensive source inventory, (ii)advanced search and visualization methods, and (iii) functionalities for generating new knowledge from these digital assets. On the other hand, these tools need to be reasonably easy for their users to understand and support them through: (i) a detailed and scientifically proven help system (tutorials, guidance), individually configurable training programmes (learning modules, videos), and a lively community of people that have similar interests or problems to be solved. To face these challenges, the interdisciplinary trans-European project called MOVING (“TraininG towards a society of data-saVvy inforMation prOfessionals to enable open leadership INnovation”) (Vagliano et al. 2018) has built an innovative training platform that enables users from various societal sectors to fundamentally improve their information literacy by training in how to choose, use, and evaluate data mining methods in their daily research and business tasks, and to become data-savvy information professionals.