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The Digital Curation Centre: A Vision for Digital Curation [PDF]
We describe the aims and aspirations for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the UK response to the realisation that digital information is both essential and fragile. We recognise the equivalence of preservation as "interoperability with the future", asserting that digital curation is concerned with "communication across time". We see the DCC as having
Peter Burnhill+6 more
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“SEMANTIC” in a Digital Curation Model [PDF]
Abstract Purpose This study attempts to propose an abstract model by gathering concepts that can focus on resource representation and description in a digital curation model and suggest a conceptual model that emphasizes semantic enrichment in a digital curation model.
Hye-Won Lee, So-Young Yoon, Ziyoung Park
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Digital curation and costs [PDF]
The production of large volumes of scientific information, considering its cost, requires approaches that ensure its maintenance, reuse and recovery. These concerns prompted the emergence of digital curation. We intend to discuss the relevant thinking concerning the costs of digital curation.
Corujo, Luís, 1976-+2 more
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Digital Curation and Doctoral Research [PDF]
This article considers digital curation in doctoral study and the role of the doctoral supervisor and institution in facilitating students’ acquisition of digital curation skills, including some of the potentially problematic expectations of the supervisory relationship with regards to digital curation.
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Book review:Digital Curation, (second edition), by Gillian Oliver, and Ross Harvey, Chicago, ALA, 2016, 224 pp., US$88.00, (soft cover), ISBN 978-0-8389-1385-7.
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Digital Curation for Science, Digital Libraries, and Individuals [PDF]
The creation, management and use of digital materials are of increasing importance for a wide range of activities. Much of the knowledge base and intellectual assets of institutions and individuals are now in digital form. The term digital curation is increasingly being used for the actions needed to add value to and maintain these digital assets over ...
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The ever changing face of digital curation: introduction to the special issue on digital curation [PDF]
According to Yakel (2007), ‘‘Digital Curation is the active involvement of information professionals in the management, including the preservation, of digital data for future use’’ (p. 335). The call for papers for this special issue stated, ‘‘digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, preservation and adding value to digital ...
Wendy M. Duff, Milena Dobreva
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Curation of Digital Archaeological Data in Norway [PDF]
Archaeological documentation from surveys and excavations in Norway are created by a limited number of actors. Excavations are mainly carried out by the five university museums. NIKU (Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research) is responsible for excavations of medieval cities and churches.
Matsumoto, Mieko, Uleberg, Espen
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Educating Digital Curators: Challenges and Opportunities
This paper describes a number of critical challenges faced by digital curation educators and suggests how the choices we make in building educational programs may impact the development of curation as a professional discipline. We focus on curriculum and program building as key steps in defining the educational needs of curators, and we argue for ...
Christine Szuter+4 more
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Digital Curation: The Emergence of a New Discipline [PDF]
In the mid 1990s UK digital preservation activity concentrated on ensuring the survival of digital material – spurred on by the US report Preserving Digital Information (The Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, 1996) and developed through JISC-funded activities.
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