digital curation intro

DIGITAL CURATION @ ARMACOST LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS

Melissa I. Cardenas-DowOutreach/Reference LibrarianMay 7, 2012UIUC GSLIS – LIS590DCL, Assignment #4

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

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)

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)

What is Digital Curation? Pt. 2

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)

Digital Services

Digital Service: Preservation

Digital Services: Preservation, Pt. 2

Digital Service: Access

Digital Service: Publication

Thank you!

Melissa Cardenas-DowOutreach/Reference LibrarianArmacost Library, University of Redlands

melissa_cardenasdow@redlands.edu909.748.8089