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Who Does Digital Curation? Roles & Responsibilities
DigCCurr Professional Institute May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-5, 2012
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Carolyn Hank May 18,2011 Start: 10:45am End: 11:15am
DigCCurr Professional Institute
Source
SOURCE: Digital Curation Centre: Roles. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/roles
DIVERSITY OF SETTINGS
• Professional context:
– E.g., Archivist, Librarian
• Disciplinary
– E.g., History, Physics
• Institutional/Organizational
– Academic, Corporate, Government
CURATION IN PRACTICE
• Developing and implementing policies
• Analyzing digital content to determine what services can be provided from it
• Providing advice to producers and consumers
• Supporting ingest of deposits to a repository
• Enabling use and reuse
• Enabling discovery and retrieval
• Preservation planning
• Promoting interoperability
SOURCE: Harvey (2010)
hiring for digital curation
THE DIGCCURR FAMILY TREE
SAMPLE JOB TITLES
• Digitization Assistant • Research Programmer (2) • Applications Programmer • Digital Preservation System
Administrator • Research Data Specialist • Digital Collections Research
Assistant • Digital Preservation Specialist (2) • Digital Preservation Researcher • Digital Technologies Manager • Digital Projects Librarian • Digital Imaging Librarian • Digital Services Librarian • Head of Preservation • Content Management Analyst
• Electronic Records Manager • Senior Advisor, Electronic Records • Archivist • Archivist/Reference Librarian • Archival Engineer • Project Archivist for Special
Collections • Digital Archivist (2) • Assistant Archivist • Digital Library Program Assistant • Multimedia and Metadata
Librarian • Cataloger • Technical Manager (2) • Information Technology Specialist
SOURCE: Tibbo, Hank & Lee (2008)
professional competencies
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
• Personal attributes
• Interpersonal skills
• Technical skills
• Administration and management skills
• Core ILS course background
• Practical experience
SOURCE: Tibbo, Hank & Lee (2008)
DIGCCURR I PRODUCTS
• High ‐Level Categories of Digital Curation Functions
• Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and Competencies
• Carolina Digital Curation Fellowship Program
SOURCE: DigCCurr Project Website. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/products.html
DIGITAL CURATION FUNCTIONS & SKILLS
• 24 High-level functional categories across six activity areas:
– Technical infrastructure
– Information resource treatment
– Metadata treatment
– Human interaction
– Strategies, prioritization, and judgments
– Administration
Source: Lee (2009). Matrix of Digital Curation
Knowledge and Competencies
HIGH LEVEL FUNCTIONS
• Administration • Advocacy & outreach • Analysis & characterization of
digital objects/packages • Analysis & evaluation of producer
information environment • Archival storage • Common services • Collaboration, coordination &
contracting with external actors • Data management • Description, organization &
intellectual control • Destruction & removal • Identifying, locating, & harvesting • Ingest
• Management • Preservation planning &
implementation • Production • Purchasing & managing licenses • Reference & user support • Selection, appraisal & disposition • Systems engineering &
development • Transfer • Transformation of digital
objects/packages • Use, reuse & adding value to
accessed information • Validation & quality control of
digital objects/packages
Meta-level Functions
• Analysis and documentation of curation functions
• Evaluation and audit of curation functions
• R&D to support curation functions
• Education and sharing of expertise and guidance on curation functions
JOB DESCRIPTION ELEMENTS
• What to be done
• Why it is being done
• And what are the anticipated outcomes
• Use explicit terminology
• See Job Description Mapping Tool
Source: JISC & Brunton Consultancy (2009)
INTERNSHIPS/PRACTICUMS
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Sources Harvey, R. (2010). Digital curation: A how-to-do-it manual (#170). New York: Neal-Schuman.
JISC & Brunton Consultancy (2009, March). Recruitment toolkit for JISC Digital Repository Projects (Version 1.1). http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/informationenvironment/recruitment.aspx
Lee, C.A. (2009, June 17). Matrix of digital curation knowledge and competencies (overview), version 13. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/digccurr-matrix.html
Tibbo, H.R., Hank, C., & Lee, C.A. (2008). Challenges, curricula, and competencies: Researcher and practitioner perspectives for informing the development of a digital curation curriculum. In Archiving 2008: Final Program and Proceedings (pp. 234-238). Springfield, VA: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
Merci. CAROLYN HANK
Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca
Phone: 514-398-4684
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