Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries
This paper describes how the Pennsylvania State (Penn State) University Libraries and the university’s central information technology organization, Information Technology Services, are putting into practice key tenets of digital curation through the newly established Content Stewardship program, a...
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University of Edinburgh
2011-07-01
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| author | Patricia Hswe Michael J. Furlough Michael J. Giarlo Mairéad Martin |
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| description | This paper describes how the Pennsylvania State (Penn State) University Libraries and the university’s central information technology organization, Information Technology Services, are putting into practice key tenets of digital curation through the newly established Content Stewardship program, a joint strategic initiative to implement stewardship services for the university. First, we provide an account of the planning, preparation, and prototyping that informed the initial year of the program. Second, we report on the hiring of a Digital Collections Curator and a Digital Library Architect and how they are advancing the program by putting digital curation into practice, which includes the work of community building. Finally, we address the organizational context of curation in practice, in particular with respect to the challenges of starting and sustaining a stewardship services program for all of Penn State. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ac7a8617dff2456dad35cfd13abee5732023-12-06T17:44:27ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562011-07-0162Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University LibrariesPatricia HsweMichael J. FurloughMichael J. GiarloMairéad MartinThis paper describes how the Pennsylvania State (Penn State) University Libraries and the university’s central information technology organization, Information Technology Services, are putting into practice key tenets of digital curation through the newly established Content Stewardship program, a joint strategic initiative to implement stewardship services for the university. First, we provide an account of the planning, preparation, and prototyping that informed the initial year of the program. Second, we report on the hiring of a Digital Collections Curator and a Digital Library Architect and how they are advancing the program by putting digital curation into practice, which includes the work of community building. Finally, we address the organizational context of curation in practice, in particular with respect to the challenges of starting and sustaining a stewardship services program for all of Penn State.http://localhost:8032/ijdc/article/view/196 |
| spellingShingle | Patricia Hswe Michael J. Furlough Michael J. Giarlo Mairéad Martin Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries International Journal of Digital Curation |
| title | Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries |
| title_full | Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries |
| title_short | Responding to the Call to Curate: Digital Curation in Practice at Penn State University Libraries |
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