The curation of scientific research data at U.S. universities is a story of enterprising individuals and of incremental progress. A small number of libraries and data centers who see the possibilities of becoming “digital information management centers” are taking entrepreneurial steps to extend beyond their traditional information assets and include managing scientific and scholarly research d...

Some data curation, digital curation, and data management programs are developed without working definitions, interdisciplinary research agenda, underlying theoretical frameworks or perspectives, or program evaluations. This paper introduces working definitions, a conceptual framework model, a theory building strategy, assessment, and program evaluation in the development of a proposed data cur...

Society is increasingly dependent on the availability of digital information assets however the resources that are available for managing the assets over time (curating) are limited. As such, it is increasingly vital that organizations are able to judge the effectiveness of their investments into curation activities. For those responsible for digital curation, it is an ongoing challenge to ensu...

This paper presents an overview of current or recently completed initiatives to create, structure, or help foster curricula for the on-going vocational training of information professionals with the aim of informing the implementation of DigCurV’s curriculum framework. The initiatives examined include the Digital Curation Centre, DaMSSI (Research Data Management Skills Support Initiative), DigC...

The second Digital Curation Curriculum Symposium was held on April 1-3, 2009, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with the theme “Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects”. The Symposium featured sessions dealing with issues from the cutting edge of digital curation research, while others showcased recent developments in digital curation tools. At the same time, the Symposium also considere...

Metadata has the proven ability to provide information necessary for successful long-term curation of digital objects. However, without curation metadata itself may deteriorate in terms of its quality and integrity over time. Therefore, a digital curation process needs to incorporate the curation of metadata along with that of data in order to ensure the accurate description of data over time. ...

From 2008-2010, as part of the grant: ‘DigCCurr I: Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum’ (DigCCurr I) funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a number of fellows at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) were comprehensively trained by library ...

We investigate how students engage in free-form web curation as a means of design ideation. Free-form web curation is a spontaneous, improvisational, and divergent creative process that involves choosing, sketching, writing, and assembling elements spatially. We take a design research approach, involving iterative design of a web curation system and pedagogy, building a relationship with our st...