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Digital Curation: A Study of Time and Patience

Author: Sara Law

Introduction

Digital curation is the process of taking digital information and eventually preserving it. Like a curator of a museum who looks after the buildings artifacts, digital curation must be cared for and maintained to keep it a digital repository. The community as digital curators will be the focus of the bibliography and will focus of various aspects from business, to social media, to the community at large. Each source is comprised of a brief explanation of either digital curation, digital curation in academia, or the community as digital curators. Digital curation in academia is the crux of digital curation. By exploring the sources listed that involve academia, one can get an overview of how trained professionals digitize information. Then, the main topic of digital curation in the community can be brought up. Each article is chosen with not only the idea of digital curation in mind, but also with the idea that the community can be digital curators.

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Beaudoin, J.E., Esteva, M., and Japzon, A. (2009). Digital curation vignettes: Personal, academic, and organizational digital information. In H.R. Tibbo et al, eds. Proceedings of DigCCurr2009 Digital Curation: Practice, Promise and Prospects. (pp. 87-89). Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/slisfrp/103

This report showcases different types of digital curation that can occur in personal, business, and academic contexts. On page 87 of the document or page 2 of the pdf, the authors speak about personal digital curation regarding histories and culture which can become a major component of curation in the community. Page 88 or page three of the pdf gives an example of problems with keeping digital copies of documents and information in Argentina and proposes a new strategy for digitizing information. Each of these pages toys with the idea of branching away from academic curation, not in how its practiced, but who will handle the information. A community is easily the best keeper of changes in its own environment. By using this source, the paper will have actual examples to showcase digital curation outside a typical academic setting such as a library or special collection.

Curry, E., Freitas, A., O’Riáin, S. (2010). The role of community-driven data curation for enterprises. In D. Wood (Ed.) Linking Enterprise Data (pp. 25-47). New York: Springer US. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7665-9_2.

This report provides an understanding of community via businesses by explaining how data oriented businesses become based on management in the supply chain and customer management. The authors then explain why curation practices can be used by the community. Page four explains the difference between data curation and digital curation. From this page on, the authors place a heavy emphasis on how to curate data and gives a strong case for community data curation. On page five of the text, Curry, Frietas, and O’Riáin (2010) state, “Often the effort required to curate anything but a trivial dataset is beyond the capability and capacity of a single individual” (p. 5). This quote is the crux of the source. By examining the questions posed regarding how to go about communal digital curation as well as the views expressed by the authors and the business examples they use such as Visa, Wikipedia, and one of the earliest curators from 1913, The New York Times, the information can assist in creating a solid case for data in the community.

Knight, Michelle. (2018). What is Data Curation? Dataversity: Data Education for Business and IT Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.dataversity.net/what-is-data-curation/

This website gives a definition and brief examples of Data Curation. Knight describes how data curation is used, what it is for as well as other definitions for the subject, how it is used in business, and the process of data curation. Although the paper will not focus on business, it is still an aspect of community. Although the paper will focus on the general idea of community, there will be a need to express how a specific sect of the community will or can use data curation. Knight’s information can also help the beginning of the paper which will explain data curation before going into academia and the community.

Knight, Michelle. (2017). Data Curation 101: The What, Why, and How. Retrieved from http://www.dataversity.net/data-curation-101/

This article explores what data curation is, how it is useful in the data industry, and its advantages and challenges. It also explores characteristics of data curation which lists social signals based on human interaction and knowledge, active management during the data’s lifecycle, and complimenting work with data governance. By exploring the characteristics of data curation, the information will explain ways the public curates data and how it should be done. The reason for simply using the characteristics of data curation in the paper helps flesh out data curation as a communal entity which will eventually lead into other parts of data curation in the community.

Kouper, Ina. (2016). Professional Participation in Digital Curation. Library and Information Science Research. Volume 38, Issue 33. 212-223. Retrieved from https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.wayne.edu/science/article/pii/ S0740818816302183

This article explains the history of the words digital curation and definitions of digital curation. By page 216, Kouper begins to explain the people who work in curation as well as activities associated with the job. Figure 7 on page 217 explains how often a digital curator is able to curate items. Astoundingly, it is rarely ever. According to the chart, the rarely if never bar is used most often in curation which makes a case for community involvement. Kouper (2016) states that the act of digital curation “indicates that digital curation needs and encourages coordination and collaboration” (p. 220). Not only will such a statement aid in creating a narrative for digital curation in the community, but it will also create a discussion for how digital curation can progress from an academic setting.

Kunda, Sue; Anderson-Wilk, Mark. (2011). Community Stories and Institutional Stewardship: Digital Curation’s Dual Roles of Story Creation and Resource Preservation. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241896648_ Community_Stories_and_Institutio nal_Stewardship_Digital_Curation's_Dual_Roles_of_Story_Creation_and_Resource_Pre servation

In this text, Kunda and Anderson-Wilk explain the use of community and preservation. It does not go into depth on a community helping with digital curation but does explain why the community needs to be addressed in curation. According to the text, the authors explain that curation is undergoing a metamorphosis. Instead of simply telling the story of objects, the authors suggest using storytelling to tell the story better. This type of curation is a concept that needs to be shown as a way to help a community and can be used by the community. Kunda and Anderson-Wilk further explore broader ideas of digital curation by offering the idea of web spaces which give more meaning to a museum patron’s experience by making them think deeper than just looking at objects. The paper then goes on to explain how the Digital Curation Model can influence a community. This text is vital in explaining the groundwork of a community and how institutional repositories can influence a group of people. It will be the bridge between academic curation and community curation.

Quan-Hasse, Anabel and Martin, Kim. (2013). Expanding La Fiesta de Santo Toma´s from the Physical to the Virtual Environment. The International Communication Gazette. 521-537. 10.1177/1748048513491910. Retrieved from gaz.sagepub.com

The article discusses data curation and how tourists can curate data in a modern age and urban environment by using La Fiesta de Santo Toma in Guatemala as the backdrop. Quan-Hasse and Martin state that “digital curation has been applied to understand how individuals record events, places, people…the observer sees and portrays the environment is a subjective practice that reflects both personal and societal preferences” (p. 228). In their case of using tourists as curators, the authors take a unique approach to the community which will be used as a point in the paper when describing how the community can be instrumental in digital curation. Not only will the previous quote be used, but also various other examples taken from the article.

Lord, Phillip; Macdonald, Alison; Lyon, Liz; and Giaretta, David. (2004). From Data Deluge to Data Curation. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.111.7425&rep=rep1&type=pdf

In their work, the authors explore digital curation via e-Science. They begin the paper by discussing e-sciences in curation and how to combat future problems that arise with a vast amount of digital work. Then, the authors describe the group’s findings in the UK study. Finally, the authors finish with the DCC or Digital Curation Center. What will make its presence in the overall paper is the selection process for curation. The authors create a detailed description of the selection process which can aid a community in figuring out the best way to curate data, as they are not trained like scholars in an academic setting.

Yakel, Elizabeth. (2007). Digital Curation. OCLC Systems & Services; Bradford Vol. 23, Iss. 4. 335-340. Retrieved from https://search-proquest- com.proxy.lib.wayne.edu/docview /209778712/fulltextPDF/D45960ECDE804DE8PQ/1?accountid=14925

This article explores the emergence of digital curation as a practice by examining four different reports. Each report gives its own definition of digital curation, but all are based around the same concept. Digital curation is needed. Yakel (2007) writes, “people working on different aspects of data curation and digital preservation for decades. . .demonstrates a current need” (p.339). There are two point this article is useful in the paper. First, early in the paper after giving a thorough definition, the stage can be set to fully discuss digital curation in an archive and the history of digital curation. Second, the article will enter the realm of community by addressing the aforementioned quote and how the community can help with such a big need.

Yoon, Ayoung; Spots, Lydia; Copeland, Andrea. (2017). Data Curation for Community Science Project. Retrieved from http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/510

The authors’ project focuses on the scientific aspect of cyclists and getting information to aid in accidents as well as data curation “to create, distribute, preserve, and analyze information and, ultimately, to improve society through a shared understanding” (p. 222) by allowing the entire community to contribute. As the authors work through their project, they come to a problem. How to properly assess the quality of the information they are given. This problem does not only permeate the essence of Yoon, Spots, and Copeland’s project, it can also come up in any type of community curation project. By addressing various parts of the article such as the types of videos that are shot by the cyclists, the article can address problems that may arise with digital curation in the community.