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Digital Curation

The curation of digital content encompasses a wide array of policies and practices that ensure the ongoing usability and accessibility of digital information. The processes related to digital curation include working with the originators of the content (whether data, text, images, or other) to document key aspects about it that will facilitate its later use by others. Libraries or other stewards need to keep a record of the technical environment in which the content was created, its coding scheme, standards used, and other pertinent metadata. They also need to develop procedures for monitoring the ongoing usability of the content as technology platforms evolve. Technical, social, economic, and policy issues are all important components of digital curation.

Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff

Summing Up IDCC 2013 (January '13)

Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch

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Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology (December '11)

Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch

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Lynch & Dirks Interviewed At Charleston, November 2011 (November '11)

Speakers: Clifford A. Lynch & Lee Dirks

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“Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo” (December '09)

Author: Clifford A. Lynch
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“Jim Gray’s Fourth Paradigm and the Construction of the Scientific Record” (June '09)

Author: Clifford A. Lynch

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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

The DataShare Project: Collaboration Yields Promising Tool (March '13)

Angela Rizk-Jackson, University of California, San Francisco
Julia Kochi, University of California, San Francisco
Perry Willett, California Digital Library

 

DuraCloud for Research: A Project Status Report (March '13)

Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace

 

Enabling Institutional Action for Research Data Management: The DCC Experience (March '13)

Kevin Ashley, University of Edinburgh

 

Academic Preservation Trust (December '12)

Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
Michele Kimpton, DuraSpace

 

Auditing Distributed Preservation Networks (December '12)

Micah Altman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

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Recent Videos

Summing Up IDCC 2013 (January '13)

Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch

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Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (March '12)

Howard Besser, New York University
David Millman, New York University
Sharon M. Leon, George Mason University
Kristine Hanna, Internet Archive

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National Status of Data Management: Current Research in Policy and Education (March '12)

Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Spencer Keralis, Council on Library and Information Resources
William E. Moen, University of North Texas
Rachel Frick, Council on Library and Information Resources

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Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology (December '11)

Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch

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An Overview of the National Science Foundation DataNet Funded Sustainable Environments-Actionable Data Project (December '11)

Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan
Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University

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Recent Podcasts

April 29, 2012: Big Data, E-Journals, ID Mgt, Text Mining, & more (May '12)

CNI Conversations Podcast, April 29, 2012

[audio:http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/20120429_CNI_Conversations.mp3] Audio Recording [22 min.]

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Feb. 10, 2012: Horizon Megatrends; E-Book Self-Publishing; OSTP Comments (February '12)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Feb. 10, 2012

[audio:http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/12021003.mp3] Audio Recording [37 min.]

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Jan. 18, 2012: Large Datasets, Identity, & New Digital Scholarship (January '12)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Jan. 18, 2012

[audio:http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120118-CNI-Conversations.mp3] Audio Recording [30 min.]

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Nov 28, 2011: Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment (November '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Nov. 28, 2011

[audio:http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/20111128-CNI-Conversations.mp3|titles=20111128-CNI-Conversations] Audio Recording [31 min.]

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Sept 6, 2011: CI for Classical Studies, Digital Scholarship Centers, Data Mgt, Cliff’s Summer Reading (September '11)

CNI Conversations Podcast, Sept 6, 2011

[audio:http://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cni20110906.mp3] Audio Recording [26:46 min.]

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