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
“Library Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues” (February '19)Authors: Joan K. Lippincott et al
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Library & IT Partnerships with Campus Museums & Archives (January '17)
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Closing Keynote IDCC 2014 (February '14)
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Cloud Architectures and Cultural Memory (September '13)
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Summing Up IDCC 2013 (January '13)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Early Lessons Learned from University Open Source Programs Offices (March '23)
Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Lieggi, University of California Santa Cruz
Kendall Fortney, University of Vermont
Empowering 360° Theater Utilization with the Visualization Studio Development Kit for Unity (March '23)
Colin Patrick Keenan, North Carolina State University
Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting (March '23)
Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Niels Stern, OAPEN & Directory of Open Access Books
Collaborative Software Archiving for Institutions (CoSAI) (November '22)
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Democratizing Access to Ephemera at Princeton University Library (November '22)
Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez, Princeton University
Ellen Ambrosone, Princeton University
Kimberly Leaman, Princeton University
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Recent Videos
Exposing Hidden Collections Through Photogrammetry (May '23)Bill Winston, Washington University in St. Louis
Jennifer Moore, Washington University in St. Louis
Skye Lacerte, Washington University in St. Louis
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Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations: White Paper from SPN Research-in-Practice Working Group (May '23)
Jessica Benner, Carnegie Mellon University
Lauren Work, University of Virginia
Wendy Hagenmaier, Georgia Tech
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Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going: Reflecting on the Data Curation Network (May '23)
Mikala Narlock, Data Curation Network and University of Minnesota View more information
Early Lessons Learned from University Open Source Programs Offices (March '23)
Sayeed Choudhury, Carnegie Mellon University
Bill Branan, Johns Hopkins University
Stephanie Lieggi, University of California Santa Cruz
Kendall Fortney, University of Vermont View more information
Empowering 360° Theater Utilization with the Visualization Studio Development Kit for Unity (March '23)
Colin Patrick Keenan, North Carolina State 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, 2012Listen to the Podcast
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Feb. 10, 2012: Horizon Megatrends; E-Book Self-Publishing; OSTP Comments (February '12) CNI Conversations Podcast, Feb. 10, 2012
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Jan. 18, 2012: Large Datasets, Identity, & New Digital Scholarship (January '12) CNI Conversations Podcast, Jan. 18, 2012
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Nov 28, 2011: Open Data, Publishing Innovations, Assessment (November '11) CNI Conversations Podcast, Nov. 28, 2011
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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
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