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
Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research (November '25)
Tim McGeary, Duke University
Gil Tran, Attain Partners
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners
IndigenizeSNAC: Indigenous and Reparative Archival Search and Aggregation (November '25)
Diana Marsh, University of Maryland, College Park
Jerry Simmons, University of Virginia
Veronica Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria)
Library Collections Access Platform (Lightning Talk) (November '25)
David Brunton, Library of Congress
Sustaining Digital Scholarship & Humanities (November '25)
Nick Szydlowski, San José State University
Sarah Dorpinghaus, University of Kentucky
Jennifer Hootman, University of Kentucky
Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects (March '25)
Douglas Boyd, University of Kentucky
Hope Dunbar, University at Buffalo
Rachel Senese Myers, Georgia State University
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Recent Videos
A Community-designed Plan for Sustaining Open Data Infrastructure (August '25)Jennifer Gibson, Dryad
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Scaling Digital Literacy in Nigeria: Kolibri’s Journey (August '25)
Cynthia Tysick, State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY) View more information
Re-Envisioning the Digital Repository: Showcasing Our Exciting Islandora Solution (January '25)
Chulin Meng, Lehigh University
Joe Corall, Lehigh University View more information
Climate Change Means Change: Long-term Planning for Long-term Digital Preservation (August '24)
Sibyl Schaefer, University of California, San Diego View more information
Ontario Universities’ Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Task Force Moves Ahead (August '24)
Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Scholars Portal
Catherine Steeves, Western University View more information
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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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