Adventures in Digital Curation Meg Meiman / June 23, 2012 Digital Conversion Interest Group Initial steps for novice, solo digital curators These steps may be configured as an iterative cycle for novice, solo curators of born-digital content.

Assess or re-assess available resources (IT support, technology, staff, and funding)

Determine / refine the scope of curated content Prioritize what you absolutely, positively have to curate

(get input from content creators, if appropriate) Develop /refine guidelines for content creators

(“front-end” curation) Develop / refine “good enough” curation practices, such as file format conversion

and migration, to incorporate into workflow (“back-end” curation) Include other collaborators to assist with curation Rinse and repeat, if necessary

Digital Curation Sources for training and continuing education Getting started Digital Preservation Outreach and Education. Library of Congress.

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/curriculum.html Lazorchak, Butch. “Digital Preservation, Digital Curation, Digital

Stewardship: What’s in (Some) Names?” The Signal: Digital Preservation. Blog post. August 23, 2011. http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/digital-preservation-digital-curation-digital-stewardship-what%E2%80%99s-in-some-names/

The Signal: Digital Preservation. Awesome blog. Library of Congress. http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/ Overview of tools and resources Digital Curation Centre.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program http://digitalpreservation.gov/partners/resources/tools/index.html

     

  

Prom, Christopher. “Practical E-Records.” http://e-records.chrisprom.com/resources/

Models of data curation Miles, Alistair. “Zoological Case Studies in Digital Curation – DCC SCARP/

ImageStore.” June 6, 2007. http://alimanfoo.wordpress.com/2007/06/ Prom, Christopher. “Making Digital Curation an Institutional Function.”

International Journal of Data Curation. 6.1 (2011): 139-152. Available online at http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/169

DCC Curation Lifecycle Model.

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model

LeFurgy, Bill. “Life Cycle Models for Digital Stewardship.” The Signal: Digital Preservation. Blog post. February 21, 2012. Available at http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/02/life-cycle-models-for-digital-stewardship/

Reports, guides, and bibliography of further readings Bailey, Charles W. “Research Data Curation Bibliography.” April 16, 2012. http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm Digital Curation Centre’s SCARP Reports on disciplinary approaches to data deposit.

Reports from 2007-2010 available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/scarp “DH Curation Guide: a community resource guide to data curation in the digital

humanities.” Available at http://guide.dhcuration.org/

“Reports on Digital Archives and Repositories.” Center for Research Libraries: Global Resources Network. http://www.crl.edu/archiving-preservation/digital-archives/digital-archive-reports

Walters, Tyler and Katherine Skinner. “New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation.” 2009. Report Prepared for the Association of Research Libraries. Available at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/nrnt_digital_curation17mar11.pdf