Report from the Digital Curation Curriculum Symposium (DigCCurr) 2009

Report from the Digital Curation Curriculum Symposium (DigCCurr) 2009

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...

Preliminary Report on the 2010-2011 DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle

Infusing Digital Curation Competencies into the SLIS Curriculum

The unprecedented rate of growth of digital information requires professionals with digital curation skills and knowledge. However, education and training programs are inadequate to meet the demand. An infusion of digital curation competencies into the Library and Information Science curriculum is required to ensure that today’s digital assets are available today and tomorrow. The purpose of th...

Report from the DCC Workshop: Legal Environment of Digital Curation

This is a report from the Legal Environment of Digital Curation workshop held at Glasgow University on November 23, 2007. The event provided an overview of legal considerations for nonlegal professionals who work with data, focusing especially on intellectual property rights and licensing, data protection, freedom of information and privacy, and data as evidence. The workshop was organised in c...

Digital Curation Education in Practice: Catching up with Two Former Fellows

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 ...