This document outlines a framework called DEDICATE for incorporating digital curation training into architectural education curricula. It discusses issues like architects' lack of digital data management skills, emerging regulations around building information modeling, and professional opportunities in digital design fields. The framework addresses these challenges by designing a digital curation module that teaches both management tasks and technical skills for preserving, storing, and providing access to digital architectural assets over time in accordance with legal and professional standards. The goals are to enhance architects' control over digital design products, improve their use of CAD technologies, and facilitate career renewal in digital cultural markets.

1. Digital Curation in Architecture
Curricula and
vocational training for Architects
The DEDICATE Framework in
Architectural CAD Courses Design
by
Dr Ian Anderson and Dr Ruggero Lancia
HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute)
University of Glasgow

2. CAD/CAM in Architectural Education
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70s
80s
90s
Today
Widely diffused informal
training often focused on the
use of the most diffused CAD
packages
Lack of a specific CAD education
in Architecture curricula
Training and post-grad
qualifications in advanced
CAD modelling offered by
Architecture Schools
Idiosyncratic CAD systems
CAD packages on
microcomputers
Democratisation of CAD
systems
Expert Architectural use
of CAD systems

3. Curatorial Issues in Architectural Practices
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Architects do not see the need for neither curating their digital data
beyond the finalisation of Design nor consistently managing digital
products during the design process;
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Specific, contextually and professionally competent knowledge is
required for handling architectural digital data;
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Post-hoc curation's agreed procedures are biased toward the mission,
competences and means of Archives;
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Built Environment related digital data bear numerous and unresolved
curatorial issues.
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4. Architect's Commercial and Legal
Responsibilities for Digital Curation
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Emerging Building Information Modelling (BIM) regulations:
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Public Investors;
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Building Control Authorities.
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Commercial liability:
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Paper documentation vs digital native documentation.
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5. Digital Curation & Professional Opportunities
for Architects
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Respond to political and commercial opportunities for professional
development:
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to reach institutional clients;
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to enter the market of integrated manufacture of building
elements;
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to adopt collaborative and concurrent Design procedures.
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6. The DEDICATE framework
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Investigating
Defining
Testing
Policies
Requirements
Procedures
Common Sustainable Framework
Loss risk
Reusability impediment
Scarce interoperability
Absent legal management
Data Audit (DAF)
Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)
Scripted Analysis
CASPAR/PLANETS
Project Partners Feedback

7. Digital Curation Module Design
– Management Tasks -
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(CREATE) to plan and implement consistent curatorial procedures along the
digital design workflows;
(APPRAISE) to formulate data appraisal and selection criteria against a set of
economical and professional objectives to formalise information disposal
procedures;
(INGEST) to manage the ingestion of digital assets according to agreed curatorial
policies to ensure data authoritativeness persistence and accessibility;
(PRESERVATION) to establish preservation policies according to professional
and legal needs to implement preservation procedures on the assets held in the
repository;
(STORE) to manage the persistent feasibility of data storage;
(ACCESS) to monitor and restrict privileges for data access and reuse according
to professional and legal requirements;
(TRANSFORM) to plan and implement procedures to track the data reuse and
transformation according to good practices in IPR management.

8. Digital Curation Module Design
- Technical Skills -
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(CREATE) expert knowledge of formats, data structure and digital design
computing procedures;
(APPRAISE) advanced knowledge of metadata standards and data quality assessment;
(INGEST) thorough knowledge of both the purpose and the originating digital work
flow of data;
(PRESERVATION) understanding of preservation routines function and strategies;
(STORE) knowledge of repository architectures options;
(ACCESS) understanding of the techniques and procedures for privileges based
data access;
(TRANSFORM) knowledge of data watermarking, cryptographic techniques
options and format migration issues.

9. Foreseen Effects of Digital Curation education
on the Architect profession
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Enhanced control over commercial exploitation of Digital Design
Products (effective IPR management);
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Technically aware use of CAD technologies (streamlined digital
workflows);
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Profession renewal (Architect as content provider in the Digital
Cultural Market).
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10. Thank you for your attention!
For more information on DEDICATE, please, visit
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