2. Agenda
Background
What is Digital Curation?
Why does it matter?
This means (3 areas of) digital services and a
digital infrastructure
Digital Infrastructure: Institutional Repository
Digital Service: Preservation
Digital Service: Access
Digital Service: Publication
3. What is Digital Curation?
“Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about
maintaining and adding value to a trusted
body of digital information for current and
future use.”
(A. Gold, 2010, quoting Data Curation Centre, “What is
Digital Curation,” 2007; my emphases)
4. Why does this matter?
Current indicators and future trends point to
digital assets management as the future of
academic libraries.
Acquisition of hyper-local materials, digitization (ACRL
2010, p. 286)
Crisis in subscription model of scholarly, academic
publication (Staley & Malenfant, 2010, p. 18)
Campus-based cyberinfrastructure leads to renewed
investment in re-learning (Gold, 2010, p. 14)
6. Digital Infrastructure:
Institutional Repository
“A repository must be necessary to be
successful. Context allows both the institution
and individuals to see how a repository can
support initiatives that are important to them.
Creating (or identifying) context is key to both
implementation and sustainability.”
(Gilman, 2012)