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
Applying AI Together: Cross-Institutional Case Studies in Accessible Collections (November '26)
Greg Leppert, Harvard University
Bohyun Kim, University of Colorado Boulder
Amanda Watson, Harvard University
Jessica Chapel, Boston Public Library
From Data Silos to AI-enabled Knowledge Graphs: Scale, Sustainability, and Social Contexts (November '26)
Katrina Fenlon, University of Maryland
Diana Marsh, University of Maryland
Robert Sanderson, Yale University
Amy Warner May, The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Trevor Muñoz, University of Maryland
From Discovery to Responsible AI Reuse: Shared Data Cards Across DOE Laboratories (Lightning Talk) (November '26)
Megan Waters, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Managing Bot Traffic: Three Responses (November '26)
Michael Weinberg, New York University
Martin Klein, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tim Lloyd, LibLynx
The Price of Public Access: Institutional Costs of Research Data Sharing (November '26)
Joel Herndon, Duke University
Jake Carlson, University at Buffalo
Ishwar Chandramouliswaran, National Institutes of Health
Plato Smith, National Science Foundation
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Recent Videos
Automated Handwritten Text Recognition of Manuscript Document Collections (January '26)Chulin Meng, Lehigh University
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Quantum Computing-as-a-Library Service (QCAALS): Preparing Academic Libraries for the Next Computing Revolution (January '26)
Seth Porter, University of Colorado Colorado Springs View more information
Vertical Interoperability: Building Research Commons that Work Across the Full Research Lifecycle (January '26)
Maria Praetzellis, California Digital Library, University of California Office of the President
Rory Macneil, Research Space
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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
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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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