Abstract

This is a report from the DigCCurr (Digital Curation Curriculum) 2007 symposium held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 18-20, 2007. The event was organised as part of the project "Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum," funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Highlights

  • The DigCCurr 2007 International Symposium on Digital Curation began on the evening of 18th April with a reception held in the Louis Round Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill)

  • Professor Tibbo introduced delegates to some of the key people involved in organising the symposium and noted with pleasure the large number of delegates, with around 300 attendees

  • Richard Marciano of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) gave a presentation on the development of distributed repositories, on collaboration between curators and technologists in the PAT (Persistent Archives Testbed) Project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)

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Summary

The International Journal of Digital Curation

Report from the DigCCurr 2007 International Symposium on Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, NC, April 18-20, 2007. This is a report from the DigCCurr (Digital Curation Curriculum) 2007 symposium held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 18-20, 2007. The event was organised as part of the project "Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum," funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors.

Introduction
Research Library Perspectives
Identifying Digital Curation Services and Functional Requirements
What is Digital Curation?
Mechanisms for Influencing Data Curation Practices
Views from National Libraries and Archives
Building Capabilities for Digital Curation Repositories
Digital Curation in Practice
Lessons Learned
Summing up
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