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
Closing Keynote IDCC 2014 (February '14)Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
Cloud Architectures and Cultural Memory (September '13)
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Summing Up IDCC 2013 (January '13)
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Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology (December '11)
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Lynch & Dirks Interviewed At Charleston, November 2011 (November '11)
Speakers: Clifford A. Lynch & Lee Dirks View more information View video
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
A Campus Master Plan for Research Storage: A Case in Progress (March '16)
David Millman, New York University
Scott Collard, New York University
Lynn Rohrs, New York University
Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research (March '16)
Joyce Ray, Johns Hopkins University
Expert Curation of SHARE Data Set: Pedagogy and Community Engagement (March '16)
Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Washington University in St. Louis
Jeff Spies, Center for Open Science
A Multiple Institutional Collaboration Project toward Geospatial Data Discovery (March '16)
Nicole Kong, Purdue University
National Web Archiving Programs in the U.S. (March '16)
Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
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Recent Videos
Digital Curation in Art Museums: Promising Practices and Opportunities for Education and Research (March '16)Joyce Ray, Johns Hopkins University
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Organizational Implications of Data Science Environments in Education, Research, and Research Management in Libraries (November '15)
Erik Mitchell, University of California, Berkeley
Vicky Steeves, New York University
Jenny Muilenburg, University of Washington View more information
The NIH Contribution to the Commons (December '14)
Philip E. Bourne, National Institutes of Health View more information
Closing Keynote IDCC 2014 (February '14)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
Hiberlink: Investigating Reference Rot in Web-Based Scholarly Communication (November '13)
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory 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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