Digital Stewardship Education at

Simmons GSLIS

Martha Mahard & Ross Harvey

Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum DigCurV

Florence, ItalyMay 7, 2013

Education and training needed

• Formal credentials• Short courses• Informal learning

opportunities

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The Wizard of ID by Parker & HartMay 4, 2013

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Digital Stewardship CertificateDigital Curriculum Laboratory

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Digital Stewardship Certificate (DSC)

• Fully online program• 5 graduate-level courses• pre-requisite: master’s

degree in LIS, archives management or related field

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Digital Stewardship Certificate

Required first course: LIS 448 Digital Stewardship

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Topics covered in LIS 448 Digital Stewardship

1 Context

2 Planning

3 Info Structure

4 Technology

5 Access

6 Org. & Mgmt.

Defining digital stewardship

Curation Lifecycle

Description & Representation Information

Preservation Action

Users Costs

The problems

Essentials Appraise & Select

Store Open access & sharing

Sustainability

Models Preservation-friendly digital materials

Ingest TDRs Restrictions to access

Where next?

Preservation methods

Controls & authentication

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Required 2 Electives (may be chosen from): Internship

LIS 448 Digital Stewardship

LIS 444 Archiving & Preserving Digital Media

• Metadata• Database Management• Web

Development/Information Architecture

• XML• DAM for LAMs• Scientific Research Data

Management

InternshiporIndependent study

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First cohort included

• CIO of a large company• Professional photographer• Archivists and librarians at

all stages of their careers from beginners to the chief archivist of a major British university

MAY

2013

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Digital Curriculum Laboratory

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Digital Curriculum Laboratory

Website: http://gslis.simmons.edu/dcl/public/about/

project name Archives and Preservation Digital Curriculum Lab

grant number RE-05-09-0082-09

Cloonan & Mahard /Amsterdam 09/13/12

University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee

University of Mid Sweden

University College London

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Website: http://gslis.simmons.edu/dcl/public/about

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Continuing Education courses

• DIGITAL STEWARDSHIP: GETTING STARTED• DIGITAL PRESERVATION PLANNING • APPRAISAL AND SELECTION OF DIGITAL

OBJECTS • EXPLORING AND EVALUATING OPEN

SOURCE DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

• MANAGING BORN-DIGITAL CONTENT RECEIVED ON PHYSICAL MEDIA

• INGEST – GETTING DATA INTO THE ARCHIVE

• STORAGE OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS• ACCESS OF DIGITAL COLLECTIONS• PRESERVATION APPROACHES• DESCRIPTION AND REPRESENTATION

INFORMATION (A.K.A. METADATA)• INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL ISSUES IN THE

DIGITAL ARCHIVE• INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH DATA

MANAGEMENT FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

• CLOUD STORAGE – WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?

• INTRODUCTION TO EMAIL ARCHIVING • INTRODUCTION TO WEB ARCHIVING • INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA

ARCHIVING

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Continuing Education courses

http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/careers/continuing-education/

http://alanis.simmons.edu/ceweb/

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GSLIS

“I loved the hands-on exercises we did with actual files. I would have loved to have seen more of this … Hopefully we get that in a future class!”

‘the format of the course presentation (Moodle) is great! This is the best format for online course delivery that I have experienced. The module format worked well with this subject matter.’

‘I want to thank you for giving me such a great grounding in the field of Digital Stewardship and Digital Archives last semester. … when I unexpectedly got this internship, I felt that I really knew what I was getting into, and could understand the issues my supervisor … was dealing with.’

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Thank you…

Contact InformationMartha Mahard

Professor of PracticeSimmons GSLIS300 The FenwayBoston, MA 02115martha.mahard@simmons.edu

Ross HarveyVisiting Professor

Simmons GSLIS300 The FenwayBoston, MA 02115ross.harvey@simmons.edu

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