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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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As museum objects are digitized, curators will need to examine closely the potential for digital objects to represent, and possibly distort, the authentic information contained in material objects. This work examines the complex preservation issues facing Polaroid photographs by Andy Warhol, as a case example of a distributed collection of relatively fragile, non-reproducible photographs which have recently been digitized, but with uncertain consequences for how audiences might experience the Polaroids in digital form. With the potential for digital objects to outlast the Polaroids, this work highlights the need for rich documentation to ensure that digital representations might be able to serve as a practicable preservation medium for material objects.

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