The is of the Digital Object and the is of the Artifact
Submitted by Clyde on Tue, 25/06/2013 - 09:20from The Signal
Digital Curation
Digital curation is the management and preservation of digital data over the long-term.
All activities involved in managing data from planning its creation, best practice in digitisation and documentation, and ensuring its availability and suitability for discovery and re-use in the future are part of digital curation. Digital curation can also include managing vast data sets for daily use, for example ensuring that they can be searched and continue to be readable. Digital curation is therefore applicable to a large range of professional situations from the beginning of the information life-cycle to the end; digitisers, metadata creators, funders, policy-makers, and repository managers to name a few examples.
Again, Kevin Bradley (2007) defined curation as "maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use"
Digital Curation takes a wholistic approach (Life-cycle Management) to digital materials to address the selection, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets for long term access, in addition to their preservation whereas Data management usually implies more of a computer maintenance and backup role.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/introduction-curation/wha...
Respect Des Bits: Archival Theory Encounters Digital Objects & Media
Submitted by Clyde on Tue, 25/06/2013 - 09:13from The Signal
Data Intelligence Training for Library Staff
Submitted by Clyde on Mon, 24/06/2013 - 12:36The Data Intelligence 4 Librarians course was developed by 3TU.Datacentrum at the end of 2011 to provide online resources and training for digital preservation practitioners, specifically for library staff. The course objectives are to transfer and exchange knowledge about data management, and to provide participants with the skills required to advise researchers or research groups on efficient and effective ways of adding value to their data. The paper describes the process of creating the course, the methodology and the results of the first pilot.
Research Data Management Education for Future Curators
Submitted by Clyde on Mon, 24/06/2013 - 12:33Science has progressed by “standing on the shoulders of giants” and for centuries research and knowledge have been shared through the publication and dissemination of books, papers and scholarly communications. Moving forward, much of our understanding builds on (large scale) datasets, which have been collected or generated as part of the scientific process of discovery. How will this be made available for future generations? How will we ensure that, once collected or generated, others can stand on the shoulders of the data we produce?
Data Conservancy: Leading the movement to build data management tools and services across institutions and disciplines
Submitted by Clyde on Tue, 11/06/2013 - 16:32The Data Conservancy Instance (DC Instance) is an implementation of both technical tools and organizational services for data collection, curation, management, storage, preservation, and sharing.
http://dataconservancy.org/