The Digital Curator Between Continuity and Change: Developing a Training Course at the University of Turin

The paper tackles with the challenges and the opportunities to establish a training course for digital curators in an Italian university, namely the University of Turin. The authors give a broad perspective of the role of the digital curator who is a figure that adds to the technical, communicative, managerial and legal skills the ability to embed these skills in more complex cultural ecosystems, which regulate and define the mechanisms of production and communication of the cultural heritage. Cultural Heritage, digital curator, information professionals, professional training course, libraries, archives, museums. I. THE INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS EVOLVING SCENARIO