Digital curation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

Digital curation is the curation, preservation, maintenance, and collection and archiving of digital assets[1][2].

Digital curation is the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference[1] by researchers, scientists, and historians, and scholars generally.

[edit] Aspects of digital curation

Digital curation entails:

  • Collecting verifiable digital assets
  • Providing digital asset search and retrieval
  • Certification of the trustworthiness and integrity of the collection content
  • Semantic and ontological continuity and comparability of the collection content

[edit] Challenges faced by digital curation

Significant[3] and major challenges faced by digital curation are:

  • Storage format evolution and obsolescence[4]
  • Rate of creation of new data and data sets
  • Broad access and searching flexibility and variety
  • Comparability of semantic and ontological definitions of data sets[4]

[edit] Response to digital curation challenges

The challenges faced by digital curation are resulting in:

  • specialised research institutions[5][6]
  • academic courses
  • dedicated symposia[7][8]
  • peer reviewed technical and industry journals[9]

to address the challenges.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b What is Digital Curation?. Digital Curation Centre. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Yakel (2007). Digital curation. Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  3. ^ Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success - Introduction. JCDL 2006 Workshop: Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  4. ^ a b Paul Watry (November 2007). Digital Preservation Theory and Application: Transcontinental Persistent Archives Testbed Activity. The International Journal of Digital Curation. Retrieved on 2008-04-01.
  5. ^ Digital Curation Centre
  6. ^ Digital Preservation Coalition
  7. ^ DigCCurr 2007 - an international symposium on Digital Curation, April 18-20, 2007
  8. ^ 1st African Digital Management and Curation Conference and Workshop - Date: 12-13 February 2008
  9. ^ International Journal of Digital Curation

[edit] See also

This library-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.