Draft Curriculum Framework Documents

The following documents are works in progress, being iteratively developed, based on collection and analysis of a variety of data sources:

Matrix of Digital Curation Knowledge and Competencies
Author: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Draft: June 17, 2009 (Version 13)

High-Level Categories of Digital Curation Functions
Author: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Draft: September 6, 2008 (Version 14)
[Note: This version currently reflects the most extensive set of footnotes to sources, but the Matrix link above reflects a more up-to-date version of the functions themselves. We are currently working to incorporate all references into the latest version of the functions document.]

Papers and Presentations

The links below provide access to DigCCurr project papers and presentations made by DigCCurr project team members, beginning in 2006:

ALISE 2009: Association of Library and Information Science Education
Dates and Location: January 20-23, 2009: Denver, Colorado
Paper: Curation Junction, What's Your Function? Defining What It Means to Do Digital Curation in Order to Teach It (Paper: HTML)
Presenter: Christopher (Cal) Lee

CIDOC 2008: Annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums
Dates and Location: September 15-18, 2008: Athens, Greece
Paper: Toward a Digital Curation Curriculum for Museum Studies: A North American Perspective (Paper: PDF)
Presenter: Helen R. Tibbo, Wendy Duff

SAA: San Francisco 2008: Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
Dates and Location: August 29, 2008: San Francisco, California
Session: 21st Century Data Curation for Archives, Libraries and Museums
Abstract: Digital curation - or Digital Collection/Information Management - now in its infancy, will arguably become a major activity for all types of cultural heritage institutions in the not-too-distant future. Each type of cultural heritage institution has its traditional curatorial practices for physical objects; however, when the objects of concern are digital files, the possibilities for sharing best practices for managing digital collections and learning from each other are wide open.
Session Chair: Helen Tibbo

SAA: San Francisco 2008: Society of American Archivists Research Forum
Dates and Location: August 26, 2008: San Francisco, California
Presentation: What do Job Postings Indicate about Digital Curation Competencies (Slides: PDF)
Presenter: Christopher (Cal) Lee

IS&T's Archiving 2008
Dates and Location: June 24-27, 2008: Bern, Switzerland
Interactive Paper: Challenges, Curricula and Competencies: Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives for Informing the Development of a Digital Curation Curriculum (Poster: PDF)
Authors: Helen R. Tibbo, Carolyn Hank, and Christopher (Cal) Lee

ALISE 2008: Association for LIS Education Annual Conference
Dates and Location: January 8-11, 2008: Philadelphia, PA
Poster: DigCCurr Progress Report: Development of a Graduate-level Digital Curation Curriculum (Poster: PDF)
Authors: Christopher (Cal) Lee, Carolyn Hank, and Helen R. Tibbo

iPRES 2007: International Conference on Digital Preservation
Dates and Location: October 11-12, 2007: Beijing, China
Presentation: International Digital Curation Curriculum: DigCCurr Project (Slides: PDF)
Presenter: Christopher (Cal) Lee

SAA: Chicago 2007: Society of American Archivists 71st Annual Meeting
Dates and Location: August 28 - September 2, 2007: Chicago IL
Presentation: Session 506: Archival Education for the Digital Age: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum (Program Proposal: PDF) (Slides: PDF)
Presenters: Helen R. Tibbo and Christopher (Cal) Lee

JCDL2007: ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Dates and Location: June 18-23, 2007: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Paper: Defining What Digital Curators Do and What they Need to Know: The DigCCurr Project (Paper: PDF) (Slides: PDF)
Authors: Christopher (Cal) Lee, Helen R. Tibbo, and John C. Schaefer
Tutorial: Digital Curation and Digital Preservation: An Introduction (Slides: PDF)
Presenters: Helen R. Tibbo and Carolyn Hank

IS&T's Archiving 2007
Dates and Location: May 21-24, 2007: Arlington VA
Paper: DigCCurr: Building an International Digital Curation Curriculum & the Carolina Digital Curation Fellowship Program
(Paper: PDF) (Slides: PDF)
Authors: Helen R. Tibbo, Christopher (Cal) Lee, and John C. Schaefer

DigCCurr2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation
Dates and Location: April 18-20, 2007: Chapel Hill NC
Paper: DigCCurr: Building a Digital Curation Curriculum
(Slides: PDF) (Slides: PDF)
Authors: Helen R. Tibbo