Event: Module presented at DigCCurr Professional Institute (May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-5, 2012), Chapel Hill, NC; Date of presentation: May 18, 2011.

1. Who Does Digital Curation?
Roles & Responsibilities
DigCCurr Professional Institute
May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-5, 2012
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Carolyn Hank
May 18,2011
Start: 10:45am
End: 11:15am
DigCCurr Professional Institute

2. Source
SOURCE: Digital Curation Centre: Roles.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/roles

3. DIVERSITY OF SETTINGS
• Professional context:
– E.g., Archivist, Librarian
• Disciplinary
– E.g., History, Physics
• Institutional/Organizational
– Academic, Corporate, Government

4. CURATION IN PRACTICE
• Developing and implementing policies
• Analyzing digital content to determine what
services can be provided from it
• Providing advice to producers and consumers
• Supporting ingest of deposits to a repository
• Enabling use and reuse
• Enabling discovery and retrieval
• Preservation planning
• Promoting interoperability
SOURCE: Harvey (2010)

5. hiring for digital curation

6. THE DIGCCURR FAMILY TREE

7. SAMPLE JOB TITLES
• Digitization Assistant • Electronic Records Manager
• Research Programmer (2) • Senior Advisor, Electronic Records
• Applications Programmer • Archivist
• Digital Preservation System • Archivist/Reference Librarian
Administrator • Archival Engineer
• Research Data Specialist • Project Archivist for Special
• Digital Collections Research Collections
Assistant • Digital Archivist (2)
• Digital Preservation Specialist (2) • Assistant Archivist
• Digital Preservation Researcher • Digital Library Program Assistant
• Digital Technologies Manager • Multimedia and Metadata
• Digital Projects Librarian Librarian
• Digital Imaging Librarian • Cataloger
• Digital Services Librarian • Technical Manager (2)
• Head of Preservation • Information Technology Specialist
• Content Management Analyst
SOURCE: Tibbo, Hank & Lee (2008)

8. professional competencies

9. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
• Personal attributes
• Interpersonal skills
• Technical skills
• Administration and management skills
• Core ILS course background
• Practical experience
SOURCE: Tibbo, Hank & Lee (2008)

10. DIGCCURR I PRODUCTS
• High ‐Level Categories of Digital Curation
Functions
• Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and
Competencies
• Carolina Digital Curation Fellowship
Program
SOURCE: DigCCurr Project Website.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/products.html

11. DIGITAL CURATION FUNCTIONS & SKILLS
• 24 High-level functional categories across six
activity areas:
– Technical infrastructure
– Information resource treatment
– Metadata treatment
– Human interaction
– Strategies, prioritization, and judgments
– Administration
Source: Lee (2009). Matrix of Digital Curation
Knowledge and Competencies

12. HIGH LEVEL FUNCTIONS
• Administration • Management
• Advocacy & outreach • Preservation planning &
• Analysis & characterization of implementation
digital objects/packages • Production
• Analysis & evaluation of producer • Purchasing & managing licenses
information environment • Reference & user support
• Archival storage • Selection, appraisal & disposition
• Common services • Systems engineering &
• Collaboration, coordination & development
contracting with external actors • Transfer
• Data management • Transformation of digital
• Description, organization & objects/packages
intellectual control • Use, reuse & adding value to
• Destruction & removal accessed information
• Identifying, locating, & harvesting • Validation & quality control of
• Ingest digital objects/packages

13. Meta-level Functions
• Analysis and documentation of curation
functions
• Evaluation and audit of curation functions
• R&D to support curation functions
• Education and sharing of expertise and
guidance on curation functions

14. JOB DESCRIPTION ELEMENTS
• What to be done
• Why it is being done
• And what are the anticipated outcomes
• Use explicit terminology
• See Job Description Mapping Tool
Source: JISC & Brunton Consultancy (2009)

15. INTERNSHIPS/PRACTICUMS

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Sources
Harvey, R. (2010). Digital curation: A how-to-do-it manual (#170). New York: Neal-Schuman.
JISC & Brunton Consultancy (2009, March). Recruitment toolkit for JISC Digital Repository
Projects (Version 1.1).
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/themes/informationenvironment/recruitment.aspx
Lee, C.A. (2009, June 17). Matrix of digital curation knowledge and competencies (overview),
version 13. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr/digccurr-matrix.html
Tibbo, H.R., Hank, C., & Lee, C.A. (2008). Challenges, curricula, and competencies: Researcher and
practitioner perspectives for informing the development of a digital curation curriculum. In
Archiving 2008: Final Program and Proceedings (pp. 234-238). Springfield, VA: Society for
Imaging Science and Technology.
Roles and Responsibilities
DigCCurr Professional Institute
May 18, 2011 /Carolyn Hank

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Merci.
CAROLYN HANK
Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca
Phone: 514-398-4684
Roles and Responsibilities
DigCCurr Professional Institute
May 18, 2011 /Carolyn Hank