In 2013, the DigCurV collaborative network completed development of a Curriculum Framework for digital curation skills in the European cultural heritage sector. DigCurV synthesised a variety of established skills and competence models in the digital curation and LIS sectors with expertise from digital curation professionals, in order to develop a new Curriculum Framework. The resulting Framework provides a common language and helps define the skills, knowledge and abilities that are necessary for the development of digital curation training; for benchmarking existing programmes; and for promoting the continuing production, improvement and refinement of digital curation training programmes. This paper describes the salient points of this work, including how the project team conducted the research necessary to develop the Framework, the structure of the Framework, the processes used to validate the Framework, and three ‘lenses’ onto the Framework. The paper also provides suggestions as to how the Framework might be used, including a description of potential audiences and purposes.
As digital scenarios become ever more convoluted under both migration and emulation, access is needed to metadata describing the technical environments used to create, render or facilitate some other action for a host of digital objects. After copious research of the state of the art within the KEEP project, Enhanced Entity Relationship models formed the basis of the analysis for eventual implementation in database or RDF format. A suite of data models was then created, and on the practical side these were implemented as a database: the Trustworthy Online Technical Environment Metadata (TOTEM) technical registry. The data models were also mapped onto the Planets OWL ontology for use with Linked data/RDF. On the metadata standards side, a metadata schema was devised which also sets out details of a separate environment entity. Finally, recommendations were put forward to the PREMIS Editorial Committee showing how a separate environment entity would function under both emulation and migration, and how links with technical registries like TOTEM and PRONOM would be made.
This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss issues relating to the deposit and archiving of e-only theses; and create a forum for promoting inter-institutional collaboration and knowledge exchange.The workshop aims to invite discussion in such areas as challenges, barriers, opportunities, current practice, and lessons learnt from existing efforts; updates necessary in workflows, processes, and documentation; as well as elements that digital preservation policy and practice should include to cater for e-only theses submission; methods to capture embargoes, supplementary research data and non-traditional theses into IR and digital preservation records; and stakeholder requirements that need to be considered to facilitate submission of e-only theses and their preservation.Workshop proceedings and recommendations deriving from round table will be documented in a report that will be shared with participants and the wider community.
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