Digital Curation certificate at the University of Maine DCC&U: An Extended Digital Curation Lifecycle Model | Constantopoulos DCC&U: An Extended Digital Curation Lifecycle Model Panos Constantopoulos, Costis Dallas, Ion Androutsopoulos, Stavros Angelis, Antonios Deligiannakis, Dimitris Gavrilis, Yannis Kotidis, Christos Papatheodorou 2009, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 34-45 doi:10.2218/ijdc.v4i1.76 Abstract The proliferation of Web, database and social networking technologies has enabled us to produce, publish and exchange digital assets at an enormous rate. Full Text: PDF
Certificate in Digital Curation This is a graduate certificate to prepare professionals for the curation of digital collections. Upon completion of the course of study, students should have an understanding of the information technology considerations associated with digital information; recognize and be able to articulate the requirements for professionally-responsible curation of digital information; and be able to apply this knowledge to practical digital curation situations. Graduates will find careers in a wide range of institutions including libraries, archives, and museums as well as corporations and government agencies. There is an increasing need for professionals who have the ability to plan, manage and implement practices that ensure the long-term integrity and use of resources that are created in digital form. The Graduate Certificate requires the completion of five courses. Certificate Required Courses (15 Credits): Additional Requirements: Master’s Paper and Field Experience SILS Elective Courses:
Publications Current publications: Annual Reports provide an annual overview of the DPC community. They are a guide to what a large cross section of institutions are doing to ensure continuing access.Case studies - Now availableDigital Preservation Jargon Buster - a single page document which provides a guide to acronyms and jargon common in digital preservation'Mind The Gap' - a major report published in 2006 which explains in detail the steps the UK needs to take so that our generation can ensure a digital legacyOccasional papers and conference reports - from time to time the DPC commissions or publishes papers on specific topics which provide an advanced reconnaissance to those engaged in digital preservation. About our publications: All DPC Publications, joint publications with partners, or publications which seek DPC endorsement should embody the values of the Coalition and articulate them implicitly or explicitly as the context permits.
The House of Savoy Superb illuminated paintings distinguish this visual regional history as an album of outstanding quality, to my eye. Please do yourself a favour by clicking through directly to the very large versions of these parchment page images so you can better inspect the manuscript illustrator's exquisite and detailed work. Produced in ~1580, this is quite a late example of such high calibre illumination work, and it was likely a special commission by a member of the royal household in the variable Italian-French-Swiss territory of Savoy. "The House of Savoy was formed in the early 11th century in the historical Savoy region. 'The Album of the House of Savoy (W. 464)' is owned and hosted by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore within 'The Digital Walters' assemblage of manuscripts: one of the best sites of its kind on the internet Previously: Illuminated.
DCC Curation Lifecycle Model The model enables granular functionality to be mapped against it: to define roles and responsibilities and build a framework of standards and technologies to implement. It can be used to help identify additional steps that may be required – or actions not required by certain situations or disciplines – and to ensure that processes and policies are adequately documented. Click on the model below to find out more about specific steps or to download the Curation Lifecycle Model. ** This publication is available in print and can be ordered from our online store ** Key elements of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model Data, any information in binary digital form, is at the centre of the Curation Lifecycle. This includes: Databases: structured collections of records or data stored in a computer system. Preservation Planning Plan for preservation throughout the curation lifecycle of digital material. Conceptualise Conceive and plan the creation of data, including capture method and storage options.
The Art of Data Visualization: How to Tell Complex Stories Through Smart Design The volume of data in our age is so vast that whole new research fields have blossomed to develop better and more efficient ways of presenting and organizing information. One such field is data visualization, which can be translated in plain English as visual representations of information. The PBS “Off Book” series turned its attention to data visualization in a short video featuring Edward Tufte, a statistician and professor emeritus at Yale, along with three young designers on the frontiers of data visualization. Titled “The Art of Data Visualization,” the video does a good job of demonstrating how good design—from scientific visualization to pop infographics—is more important than ever. In much the same way that Marshall McLuhan spoke about principles of communication, Tufte talks in the video about what makes for elegant and effective design. What does Tufte mean by this? For those of us who aren’t designers, it’s refreshing to consider the elements of good visual story-telling.
Archival Metadata Wendy Duff & Marlene van Ballegooie, University of Toronto Published: May 2006 Archivists and records managers have always been metadata experts. Archivists create finding aids, file lists, inventories, registers, catalog records, calendars of correspondence, published repository guides, and file plans. Records managers also capture metadata about their organisation's records in their records systems and related tools. All of these products of description contain recordkeeping metadata - descriptive information about the content, context and form of records. This type of metadata has long been used by researchers to identify, locate and interpret records. The purpose of this instalment is to provide an introduction to archival metadata and its potential in supporting the preservation and reuse of digital data and information. Download the Archival Metadata chapter (pdf)
Cultivating Partnerships in the Digital Humanities - Advice By William Pannapacker As academics we can be too snug in our institutional silos. We sometimes think of one another as competitors for students, and as a result we duplicate scarce resources in mutually damaging ways. The digital humanities (or, preferably, the more inclusive digital liberal arts) provides a context for facing those questions head-on. Now I want to argue that teaching-focused institutions have much to gain from partnerships with research universities on the digital humanities, and vice versa. Beyond liberal-arts training, the 21st-century workplace increasingly demands that graduates demonstrate technological competence and entrepreneurial ability. That's a much larger project than the digital humanities by itself can undertake, but DH does provide a model and an ethos of technologically enabled scholarly collaboration that could promote the growth of multi-institutional partnerships.
Format policy registry requirements - Archivematica Documentation > Requirements > Format policy registry requirements [edit] Overview The Archivematica project team is working on a better way to manage normalization format policies.A format policy consists of the business rules and tool commands for format normalization.The FPR lists all of Archivematica's default format policy rules.In your Archivematica 0.10-beta instance you can download updates from the FPR as well as replace default rules with your own local policies.Upcoming FPR enhancements will include statistical information about the default and custom format policies implemented by Archivematica users. [edit] Description The Archivematica project team has recognized the need for a better way to manage preservation plans, i.e. business rules and tool commands for format transcoding. [edit] 0.10-beta [edit] 1.0 [edit] Use Cases [edit] Mockups Preservation Planning tab in Dashboard - Local FPR Add new Archivematica format ID Add new Command Copy Archivematica format ID Copy Command Pros:
Digital Tools for Medieval Texts: Workshop at the Huygens ING By Julie Somers At the Huygens ING in The Hague, researchers and program developers convened last week to discuss the creation of tools that are intended to help all ‘scholars-at-large’ of medieval manuscripts use digital technologies in useful ways. The two-day workshop, Easy Tools for Difficult Texts: Manuscripts & Textual Tradition (18-19 April 2013) brought together projects that addressed the varieties and difficulties of managing medieval manuscripts in a digital medium. Transcribe Bentham -Tim Causer, eLaborate – Karina van Dalen, T-Pen – Abigail Firey, Annotated Books On Line – Valentijn Manshande, EVT – Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Shared Canvas – Robert Sanderson, ImageJ – Mike Toth The title of the workshop gives a hint that there is a dilemma in using digital tools for medieval manuscripts. Shared Canvas: Dealing with Uncertainty in Digital Facsimiles Robert Sanderson (Los Alamos National Laboratory, US) So much more was discussed and new, up-coming projects were introduced.