The document presents a survey analysis of training opportunities in digital curation, aimed at documenting and evaluating existing courses and curricula. It details the focus on training content, methodologies, delivery options, and assessments while highlighting the varying levels of awareness and training offerings in the field. The conclusions emphasize the need for collaboration in vocational training and the importance of raising awareness about successful digital curation practices.

1. A survey based analysis on
training opportunities
Dr. Jūratė Kuprienė
Framing the digital curation curriculum
International Conference
Florence, Italy
6 - 7 May 2013
www.digcur-education.org

2. What we planned?
To identify, document and analyze the training
courses, curriculum, resources, good practice
instances that are currently available.
To profile the existing training opportunities.
To establish a framework for the evaluation of the
training curriculum.

3. What we did?
Questionnaire on training opportunities:
– Institutions and organizations with interest or involvement in
digital curation and preservation training activity.
– Focus on issues related to:
• Training content
• Metchodologies
• Delivery options
• Assessment
• Certification
Registry of training opportunities
Training evaluation framework

4. Structure of questionnaire
Information about institution;
Information about trainings provided by the institution:
– Type of training;
– Target audience and their knowledge;
– Key topics covered;
– Training format;
– Trainers;
– Learning objectives and benefits of attending;
– Accessment
– Certification
– Evaluation
Information about future plans to organize such trainings.

5. Survey distribution

6. Survey population

7. Did your institution
organize trainings during the last 2 years?

8. Accessibility

9. Audience

10. Required experience

11. Key topics

12. Trainings format

13. Trainers

14. Learning objectives
Awareness of issues in digital curation field:
– critical challenges and trends;
– latest developments in managing;
– requirements in different environments;
– development of policy for organisation;
– applying the standards.
Getting knowledge about:
– digital preservation methods;
– data management planning;
– repository systems;
– web archiving;
– file formats.
Awareness of good practice: projects, networks.

15. Benefits of attending
Ability to make choices between short, medium and long-term digital
preservation;
Becoming able to define strategy and planning in the field;
Understanding of the preservation planning process and its benefits to
overall digital preservation strategies;
Acquiring competence on the main tools and standards;
Capacity to dynamically interpret rules and legislation;
Knowledge of the role and use of metadata and representation
information needed for preservation;
Knowledge of web archiving and implementation of existing software;
etc.

16. Assessment,
certification, credits
79% didn’t offer any assessment, 9% offered tests, 6%
offered exams.
40% of all training provided attendees with certificates:
– 42% of those certificates were vocational;
– 32% academic.
34% of all training provided credits:
3 respondents gave 2 ECTS credits;
2 respondents gave 4 ECTS credits;
some respondents: “it depends”…

17. Evaluation

18. Future plans
43% of respondents were planning to organize trainings.
Topics:
a general introduction to digital preservation;
attributing metadata;
evaluating the format of digital resources;
checking an OAIS-compliant ingest plan;
data archiving of scientific data sets;
management of photo archives.
Outcomes:
– raising awareness about digital preservation and existing tools;
– learning about current developments in the field;
– understanding the risks associated with information access;
32% may organize
25% were not planning to organize.

19. Conclusions
The differing levels of awareness of the field;
The variety of institutions ;
The dynamic rate of development of the digital
preservation field;
Closer interaction between practice and theory;
The awareness raising of why successful digital curation
action is important to undertake in the first place;
The flexibility in vocational training requires
collaboration between organizers of relevant courses
and the ongoing exchange of teaching ideas, methods
and techniques.

20. Outcomes
Training evaluation framework:
– The survey + desk reseach of previous work.
– The structured approach to consideration of a curriculum or
piece of training.
– For those developing training:
• To assess what is already available,
• To clarify which potential approaches, audiences and skills may
need to be addressed.
– For those assessing training:
• A structure to which training offerings can be mapped;
• To clarify where provision is ample;
• To learn which approaches, audiences or skills are scarcely served
in training;
• To compare different training offers.

21. www.digcur-education.org

23. A survey is available on
http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/Resources
jurate.kupriene@mb.vu.lt
Vilnius University Library