Educating Digital Curators: Challenges and Opportunities

Botticelli, Peter; Fulton, Bruce; Pearce-Moses, Richard; Szuter, Christine; Watters, Pete

doi:10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.193

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“…Digital curation even seemed a potential locus for archival education (Cox 2012 ). Sundry graduate education initiatives, though often funded short-term and by soft-money, attested to this optimism (Anderson et al 2011 ; Bastian et al 2010 , 2011 ; Botticelli et al 2011 ; Fulton et al 2011 ; Galloway 2011 ; Gregory and Guss 2011 ; Harvey and Bastian 2012 ; Kelly et al 2013 ; Kim et al 2011 ; Lee 2009 ; Lyon and Brenner 2015 ; Mayernik et al 2015 ; Moen et al 2012 ; Palmer et al 2008 ; Renear et al 2009 ; Yakel et al 2011 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I’m not a very good visionary’: challenge and change in twenty-first century North American archival education

Poole

Todd-Diaz

2022

Arch Sci

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Since the founding of the National Archives (1934) and the Society of American Archivists (1936), archival scholars, educators, and practitioners have discussed and debated the challenges of and future directions for graduate archival education. This exploratory qualitative case study uses semistructured interviews with 33 tenure-track and tenured faculty members from North American graduate archival programs to explore the most pressing issues facing archival education in the twenty-first century. Showing both continuity and change, findings extend and enrich the literature regarding faculty, curriculum, interdisciplinarity and collaboration, DEI, technology, and sustainability.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I’m not a very good visionary’: challenge and change in twenty-first century North American archival education

Poole

Todd-Diaz

2022

Arch Sci

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“…After reviewing literature on key digital curation projects described above, we found that these digital curation initiatives and education and training programs inconsistently use the term "competency", often interchangeably with "skills" and "abilities" without further explaining the context of these terms. For example, Botticelli et al (2011) described what they believe to represent a core curation knowledge base and key challenges in developing curation competencies. They suggested that one could think of a list of professional competencies as a "mission statement" for a digital curation program, though they did not specifically define or describe how they conceptualized the term "competency".…”

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A review of digital curation professional competencies: theory and current practices

Feng

Richards

2018

RMJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of professional competency in current digital curation literature through the lens of competency theories in management science and organizational studies. This paper also aims to provide recommendations to articulate and expand professional competencies in future digital curation research and professional education. Design/methodology/approach The outcomes presented in this paper are based on a multi-disciplinary literature review and a qualitative content analysis. The literature review explores theoretical foundations of professional competency in management science and organizational studies and how the concept of professional competency is used in digital curation literature. The content analysis scrutinizes 16 digital curation publications that have discussed professional competency, with an in-depth examination of seven empirical studies in these publications. Findings The findings include: the concept of professional competency is inconsistently used in digital curation literature, the digital curation literature exhibits disparate coverage of different types of professional competencies, and the digital curation empirical studies often narrowly operationalize the concept of professional competency but the empirical studies using multiple or in-depth qualitative methods yield more comprehensive findings reflecting a broader scope of the concept. Originality/value Although past research focused on the competencies required for digital curation, there is no research scrutinizing the conceptual construct of professional competency in the digital curation literature. This paper will be of value to digital curation researchers and educators to better determine the competencies needed for digital curators as an emerging profession.

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“…Examples from recent literature include the need to balance technical skills with soft skills (de Smaele, Verbakel, Potters, & Noordegraaf, 2013) and organizational aspects with domain-specific aspects (Kim, Addom, & Stanton, 2011). Educators developing training initiatives have also acknowledged more immediate challenges that are symptomatic of this situation, such as defining the boundaries of the content to the covered, the rapid growth of literature in the field, and the lack of widely accepted best practices (Botticelli, Fulton, Pearce-Moses, Szuter, & Watters, 2011). The success of vocational training relies on educators navigating these competing needs in the design and delivery of their programmes.…”

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DigCurV Curriculum Framework: Applications in the Development of Digital Curation Vocational Training Programmes

Moles¹

2014

iConference 2014 Proceedings

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Digital curation is a rapidly evolving field, driven by a range of factors including the explosion of data currently being created, continuous change in information technology and emerging patterns in information use. As a result there is a pressing need for information professionals in the work force to remain abreast of developments in the field. Prior research conducted as part of the DigCurV project resulted in a curriculum framework, intended to guide the development of vocational training curricula, and identified a set of 12 characteristics that summarize the strengths of existing training programmes while reflecting the ongoing training needs of working professionals. This poster bridges the gap between these tools by illustrates 8 ways in which the framework can be to achieve these 12 characteristics.

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Educating Digital Curators: Challenges and Opportunities

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

‘I’m not a very good visionary’: challenge and change in twenty-first century North American archival education

‘I’m not a very good visionary’: challenge and change in twenty-first century North American archival education

A review of digital curation professional competencies: theory and current practices

DigCurV Curriculum Framework: Applications in the Development of Digital Curation Vocational Training Programmes

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