Educating Digital Curators: Challenges and Opportunities
This paper describes a number of critical challenges faced by digital curation educators and suggests how the choices we make in building educational programs may impact the development of curation as a professional discipline. We focus on curriculum and program building as key steps in defining the...
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University of Edinburgh
2011-07-01
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| author | Peter Botticelli Bruce Fulton Richard Pearce-Moses Christine Szuter Pete Watters |
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| description | This paper describes a number of critical challenges faced by digital curation educators and suggests how the choices we make in building educational programs may impact the development of curation as a professional discipline. We focus on curriculum and program building as key steps in defining the educational needs of curators, and we argue for greater collaboration among educators, researchers and practitioners in the field, as a way to speed the emergence of curation as a discipline and to foster the integration of curation programs within libraries and archives. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2cce9ba7a43e4d6ba7b04cc1b9b0233f2023-12-06T20:02:50ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562011-07-0162Educating Digital Curators: Challenges and OpportunitiesPeter BotticelliBruce FultonRichard Pearce-MosesChristine SzuterPete WattersThis paper describes a number of critical challenges faced by digital curation educators and suggests how the choices we make in building educational programs may impact the development of curation as a professional discipline. We focus on curriculum and program building as key steps in defining the educational needs of curators, and we argue for greater collaboration among educators, researchers and practitioners in the field, as a way to speed the emergence of curation as a discipline and to foster the integration of curation programs within libraries and archives.http://129.215.67.233:80/ijdc/article/view/193 |
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