Talk:Digital curation/Archive 1

Clean up versus stub
Why does the article need a cleanup category when it is already a stub category ? Peet Ern (talk) 00:59, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think it does. Someone a tad hasty on NPP, I think. I'm removing it. Thanks so much for working on this, you've done a very good job with it. Good move nothing it as not a copyvio on re-creation, kept it from getting speedied. TRAVELLINGCARI My storyTell me yours 01:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback. Peet Ern (talk) 03:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

FYI: a project of a site to share & collect our experience on digital preservation & curation

 * Proposed Q&A site for professionals dedicated to digital curation and preservation and lay people interested in... --Imz (talk) 13:30, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Please add this reference
Please add article: "Content Strategist as Digital Curator" in A List Apart Journal, Dec 2009: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/content-strategist-as-digital-curator/ This article directly applies the principles of good content curation based on library and museum practice. It is directly appropriate to this topic. Thank you


 * I've added it as a ref to the intro, as it's one of the refs that most directly expresses the need for selection, not merely blind storage of everything. Thanks for that. Feel free to cite it elsewhere in the article, I'm sure there are others.
 * I'd also ask you to contribute further to this currently rather terse article. It could use help. Thanks Andy Dingley (talk) 12:32, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Biocuration
I would consider Biocuration to be part of Digital Curation. Is there any oposition to establishing this link here?

Declaration of conflict of interest: I am member of the exec committee of the International Society for Biocuration. Marcrr (talk) 07:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm similrly conflicted. Are you proposing to add Biocuration in the see also section?  That would certainly seem appropriate to me. To add it elsewhere in the text I think it would be good to have a referenced statement of the relationship between the two subjects. Alexbateman (talk) 12:46, 8 May 2013 (UTC)


 * I see them as closely related and linking to be encouraged. However they are still distinct and a merge (as someone will inevitably suggest) would be wrong. Andy Dingley (talk) 13:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the answers. I added a link in the "See also" section, and I will see about adding more text if I find a good reference about the relationship between the two subjects. Also, I agree that the two should not be merged.Marcrr (talk) 12:19, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

The link seems most appropriate. Biocuration is a specific subset of digital curation that works with particular data curation tasks and challenges. Morskyjezek (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Need a section for selection
The main problem in social media, online documents and online data, is the diversity. With Internet wide use and storage lower costs, last decades, the preservation (see also PURL), archiving and other "curatory tasks" for digital assets, are secondary. The *selection* plays the main rule in digital curation. "Democratic curatory selection" is, perhaps, other important topic to be included in this article. --Krauss (talk) 11:21, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Core Concepts
I think the page might be made more useful for readers by adding in the core concept/activity areas of digital curation as outlined in Elizabeth Yakel (2007). "Digital curation". Emerald Publishing. Specifically, Lifecycle Management, Active Involvement, Appraisal and Selection, Provision of Access, and Preservation and Usability. Yakel's article seems to be widely cited as a well accepted definition, and including the core concepts and activities of digital curation would help expand the usefulness of this article for readers. Acleaven (talk) 14:53, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Reorganization proposal
I hope to reorganize some of the existing content into more logical categories, and I want to add more general background information about the process of digital curation as well as how it is differentiated from similar terms (e.g. digital preservation, digital asset management, etc.). I have included an outline below of the new structure I hope to implement and made notes on which content is new and which is existing. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Lead - (Existing) For now I plan to leave the existing lead mostly intact. I may add more to it later, but I think it's a lower priority.

Core Principles and Activities - (New) (This is the biggest need) Related terms - (New) A brief discussion about how digital curation differs from and relates to similar terms such as digital preservation, digital asset management, content management, and perhaps others. I see this as a close second to the core principles in terms of important gaps to fill.
 * Yakel's core concepts/activities (New)
 * DCC's lifecycle model (Existing/moved)

Challenges - (Existing) New Approaches - (Existing) See also (Existing)
 * Cost (New)
 * Digitization of analog materials (Existing)
 * New representational formats (Existing)
 * Channelization (Existing)
 * Sheer Curation (Existing)

References (New references added)

External links (New links added)

For the above changes I hope to pull from the preliminary bibliography below. Some sources may change, and I am open to suggestions.


 * Beagrie, N. (2006). Digital Curation for Science, Libraries, and Individuals IJDC 1/1. http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/6/2


 * Boutard, G. (2015). Towards mixed methods digital curation: Facing specific adaptation in the artistic domain. Archival Science : International Journal on Recorded Information,15(2), 169-189. doi:10.1007/s10502-014-9218-0


 * Dallas, C. (2016). Digital curation beyond the “wild frontier”: A pragmatic approach. Archival Science : International Journal on Recorded Information,16(4), 421-457. doi:10.1007/s10502-015-9252-6


 * DCC Curation Lifecycle Model | Digital Curation Centre. (2018). Dcc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2018, from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model


 * Dobreva, M., & Duff, W. (2015). The ever changing face of digital curation: Introduction to the special issue on digital curation. Archival Science : International Journal on Recorded Information,15(2), 97-100. doi:10.1007/s10502-015-9243-7


 * Lavoie, B. (2004). The open archival information system reference model: Introductory guide. Microform & Imaging Review, 33(2), 68-81.


 * Lee, C. (2008). High-Level Categories of Digital Curation Functions. DigCCurr - Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum. Retrieved from https://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/digccurr-funct-categories.pdf


 * Madrid, M. (2013). A study of digital curator competences: A survey of experts. International Information & Library Review, 45(3-4), 149-156.


 * National Research Council (2015). Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/18590


 * Poole, A.H. (2016). The conceptual landscape of digital curation. Journal of Documentation, 72(5), 961-986. doi:10.1108/JD-10-2015-0123


 * Ray, J. (2009). Sharks, digital curation, and the education of information professionals. Museum Management and Curatorship, 24(4), 357-368. doi:10.1080/09647770903314720


 * Richards, J., Austin, T., & Hardman, C. (2014). Covering the costs of digital curation. Heritage Management, 3(2), 255-263. doi:10.1179/hma.2010.3.2.255

Thoughts? Acleaven (talk) 22:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yakel, E. (2007). Digital curation. Oclc Systems & Services, 23(4), 335-340.


 * I would to the Challenges section something on the increasing amounts of information, as well as new ways of working with data in many fields. For example, here's a very recent post from Ted Underwood, a professor in digital humanities, who discusses how attention to data has implications for peer review (https://tedunderwood.com/2018/02/28/raising-the-standards-for-computation-in-the-humanities/) and these factors are also mentioned in the Beagrie 2006 article you mention. The reorganization proposal looks clear, but I remain unconvinced that sheer curation and channelization need their own subsections. You might just mention that there are many approaches, these are two that have been mentioned and offer a citation for each. Morskyjezek (talk) 11:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Organization & Links
Hello, in reviewing this article I found the organization to be a little difficult in that there are too many headings. I'm not convinced the "Responses to Challenges" or the "New Representational Formats" headings are necessary under the larger heading of "Challenges". Perhaps the "Digitization of Analog Materials" sections deserves a little more depth. Also the links for citations 13 and 21 no longer appear functional. Otherwise, lots of good information here! Quannstar (talk) 18:47, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

History
Hi all!

I am curious what y'all think about adding a more robust history to the page? There's brief history underneath "Core Principles and Activities," but I think that it needs some additional information and perhaps a seperate "History" header. I think that this would help ground digital curation and provide the necessary background for the topic.

Ejohnson1212 (talk) 20:20, 22 January 2020 (UTC)EJ

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