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Digital Curation of Digital Cultural
Assets: Mutual interest of ALaRMMs
Some Definitions...
ALaRMMs
The term used to describe Archivists, Librarians, Record Managers and
Museum professionals.
Digital Curation
The term digital curation is...the actions needed to maintain digital research data
and other digital materials over their entire life-cycle and over time for current and
future generations of users. (DCC)
Digital Cultural Assets and Heritage
The digital heritage consists of unique resources of human knowledge and
expression. It embraces cultural, educational, scientific and administrative
resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information
created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources.
Where resources are “born digital”, there is no other format but the digital object.
(UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage)
Information Challenges
Heterogenous digital platforms:
EDMS, email systems (commercial & institutional), file servers, file cabinets/ file
rooms, HEI Instant Messaging & collaboration systems, BYOD systems, cloud-based
systems such as: social media sites, wikis and blogs.
Areas for Convergence & Collaboration
Worthy of Note...
Archival Community
ICA-AtoM - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/ica-atom
UNESCO/PERSIST - https://www.ica.org/en/networking/about-unescopersist
Librarian Community
Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) - https://www.ifla.org/pac
Records Management
The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) -
http://www.interpares.org/
Museum Community
ICA-AtoM - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/ica-atom
Caribbean Regional Framework for the
Protection of Traditional Knowledge,
Traditional Cultural Expressions and
Genetic Resourceshttps://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partners
hip/?p=7663
Regional Initiatives
Source: UNGA (A/RES/70/1), 2015
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS and the Virtual
Museum of the Caribbeanhttp://eu-lac.org/virtual-museums/
Where exactly should be the priority?…
long term stewardship of digital assets is the responsibility of
everyone in the digital information value chain”
New “digital goods” in the Knowledge Economy - artefacts as
diverse as computer games, digital art, and electronic records
Digital Stewardship - selection, maintenance, collection and
archiving of digital assets in addition to their
preservation….satisfyingly brings preservation and curation
together
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