Event: Comparing Curricula for Digital Library and Digital Curation Education panel at DigCCurr2009: Digital Curation: Practice, Promise, and Prospects, Chapel Hill, NC, April 4, 2009. With Barbara Wildemuth and Jeffrey Pomerantz.
(Apr 2009) Comparing Curricula for Digital Library and Digital Curation Education
1. Comparing Curricula for
Digital Library
and
Digital Curation
Education
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Jeffrey Pomerantz, Sanghee Oh, Carolyn Hank, Helen Tibbo,
Barbara M. Wildemuth,
M Wildemuth & Cal Lee
Seungwon Yang, & Edward A. Fox Digital Curation
Digital Library Curriculum Project Curriculum Project
UNC-CH & Virginia Tech UNC-CH
2. Two projects: alike yet different
• Scope
– DL project describes a curriculum
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– DC project describes a lifecycle
• Emphasis
– DL project bl d people/information/technology
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– DC project focuses on information objects
• Context
– DL project is multi-disciplinary and multi-institution
– DC project develops an emerging discipline
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Educational goal
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– Educating digital librarians
– Educating digital curators
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5. Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge & Competencies
1) Mandates Values and Principles
Mandates,
2) Functions and Skills
3) Professional, Disciplinary or
f i l i i li
Institutional/Organizational Context
4) Type of Resource
5) Prerequisite Knowledge
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6) Transition Point in Information Continuum
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6. Case 1: Preservation
1, Mandates, Values and Principles
8 Preservation
1.2,
1 2 Core digital curation
8a, Preservation principles and values
Issues of preserving
meaningful i f
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Nature of digital objects
Layers and abstraction
Technology obsolescence
2, Functions and Skill
Approaches to p
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layers of meaning
Measures for promoting 2.12, Preservation planning
interoperability and implementation
Representation information
and format registries
Spectrum of technical digital
preservation strategies
Significant properties
Persistent identifiers
Cost-benefit analysis of
preservation approaches
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7. Case 1: Preservation
1.2, Core digital curation
8 Preservation principles and values
Abstraction
Accountability
8a, Preservation Abstraction
Accountability
Issues of preserving
Adaptability and robustness
meaningful information
Authenticity
A th ti it
Nature of digital objects
Automating and informating of tasks
Layers and abstraction
Collection
Technology obsolescence
Context
Approaches to preserving
Continuum and lifecycle orientations
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layers of meaning
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Critical inquiry
Measures for promoting
Diversity
interoperability
Evidence
Representation information
Long Term
and format registries
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Openness and interoperability
Spectrum of technical digital
Provenance and chain of custody
preservation strategies
Scale and Scalability
Significant properties
Significant Properties
Persistent identifiers
Stakeholders
Cost-benefit
Cost benefit analysis of
Trust
preservation approaches
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8. Case 1: Preservation
2.12, Preservation planning
8 Preservation and implementation
Develop packaging designs &
8a, Preservation migration plans
Develop preservation strategies &
Issues of preserving standards
meaningful information Monitor designated community
Nature of digital objects Monitor technology
Layers and abstraction
Technology obsolescence
Approaches to preserving
layers of meaning
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Measures for promoting
interoperability
Representation information
and format registries
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Spectrum of technical digital
preservation strategies
Significant properties
Persistent identifiers
Cost-benefit
Cost benefit analysis of
preservation approaches
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9. Case 2: Selection of Materials
Collection 2. Functions and
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Development Skills
3a, Collection 2.3, Selection, appraisal and
development / disposition
selection policies
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Deselection
Module not yet specified Enact selection, appraisal or disposition
Evaluation & monitoring of collections
Identify needs
Identify valuable information resources
Make selection, appraisal or disposition
decision
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10. Case 3: Description of Objects
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Info/Knowledge 2. Functions and
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Organization Skills
4b, Metadata 2.8, Description, organization,
and intellectual control
Metadata
Dublin Core Analyze existing descriptive information
Namespaces & repositories and determine needs
Administrative metadata Assign unique, persistent identifiers
Preservation metadata Create and capture descriptive
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Harvesting
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Educational metadata Create and maintain representation
Semantic Web information registry
Create and maintain producer profiles
4d,
4d Subject description Create and maintain policy/rule registries
Create and maintain tools registry and
Subject description tools service
Vocabulary control Establish plan and conventions for
Thesauri descriptive information
Terminologies Subject analysis
Visualization
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11. Case 4: Reference Services
2. Functions and
7 Services
Skills
7b, Reference services 2.15, Reference and user
support services
Major themes/tensions in Developing policies for reference
references services for DLs services
Human-intermediated digital Facilitating access to useful and
reference appropriate digital objects
Automation Help desk and end user technical
Use of DL resources in support
responses / Collection Providing associated information to
development consumers
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12. Case 5: Legal issues
Management 1. Mandates, Values
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and Evaluation and Principles
9e, Intellectual property 1.3, Legal requirements
Copyright Not yet specified
Fair use
Public domain
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Digital rights management/
Copyright protection
technologies
Digital library intellectual
property rights
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13. An area not covered in
DL curriculum f
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• Lifecycle
– Dimension 6, Transition Points in Information Continuum
• Pre-Creation Design and Planning
• Creation
• Primary Use Environment (Active Use)
• Transfer to Archives
• Archives (Preservation Environment)
• Transfer Copies or Surrogates to Secondary Use Environment
• Secondary Use Environment
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14. Two areas with little coverage in
DC curriculum matrix
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• User behaviors
– Core topic 6, User Behavior/Interactions
• 6a, Information needs, relevance
• 6b,
6b Online information seeking behavior and search strategy
• 6c, Sharing, networking, interchange
• 6d, Interaction design
• 6e, Information summarization and visualization
• Technology/systems
– Core topic 5, Architecture
• 5a,
5a Architecture overviews
• 5b, Application software
• 5c, Identifiers, handles, DOI, PURL
• 5d, Protocols
• 5e, I t
5 Interoperability
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• 5f, Security
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16. DL Curriculum Framework →
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
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17. DigCCurr Matrix →
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
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18. Side-by-side mapping to
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
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19. Depth of coverage in mapping to
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model
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20. Questions?
• Digital Curation Curriculum Project (DigCCurr)
– Helen Tibbo, Cal Lee, Carolyn Hank at UNC-CH
– http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/
– With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IMLS
Grant Awards # RE-05-06-0044 and #RE-05-08-0060-08
• Digital Library Curriculum Project
– Barbara M. Wildemuth, Jeff Pomerantz, Sanghee Oh, at UNC-CH
M Wildemuth Pomerantz Oh
– Edward A. Fox, Seungwon Yang, at Virginia Tech
– http://curric.dlib.vt.edu/
– With funding from the National Science Foundation, grants IIS-
0535057 (to Virginia Tech) and IIS-0535060 (to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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