Sam Meister
Katherine Skinner
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Anne Ackerson
Dr. Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, Sustainable Heritage Network (SHN)
George Coulbourne, Independent Consultant (formerly the head of DPOE and NDSR at the Library of Congress)
Martin Halbert, Coalition to Advance Learning in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science (DigCCurr)
Nancy McGovern and Kari Smith, MIT, Digital Preservation Management Workshop (DPM)
Mary Molinaro, Digital Preservation Network (Digital Preservation Workflow Curriculum)
Annie Peterson, lyrasis
Amy Rudersdorf, AVP
Jaime Schumacher, Northern Illinois University (Digital POWRR)
Sharon Streams, OCLC WebJunction
Ann Marie Willer, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
Sam Meister
Katherine Skinner
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Anne Ackerson
Dr. Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, Sustainable Heritage Network (SHN)
George Coulbourne, Independent Consultant (formerly the head of DPOE and NDSR at the Library of Congress)
Martin Halbert, Coalition to Advance Learning in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Cal Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science (DigCCurr)
Nancy McGovern and Kari Smith, MIT, Digital Preservation Management Workshop (DPM)
Mary Molinaro, Digital Preservation Network (Digital Preservation Workflow Curriculum)
Annie Peterson, lyrasis
Amy Rudersdorf, AVP
Jaime Schumacher, Northern Illinois University (Digital POWRR)
Sharon Streams, OCLC WebJunction
Ann Marie Willer, Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
The Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training project engaged in multi-stakeholder scenario planning and developed a shared vision for expanding and supporting digital curation and preservation training. The project contributed to the continued growth of the National Digital Platform by strengthening and improving the sustainability of digital curation training resources available to librarians, archivists, and curators. Three reports were produced; the first provided an overview and environmental scan of current continuing education resources; the second documented key aspects of and different approaches to CE sustainability; the third served as an edited compilation of the initial reports.
The compiled report recommendation how stakeholders can take concrete steps to enable open resources developed in grant-funded projects to move into broader use across the fields. Additionally, the project has increased and promoted communication between training programs and hosts. The project has helped to move the emphasis on training from the individual programmatic level to the system level, seeking to ensure that the investments made in developing curriculum reach the broadest possible audience and have the greatest possible impact.
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This report serves as a compilation of two reports produced in a one-year project, “Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training,” which was conducted from July 2018 to June 2019, through the generous funding of the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
In this compilation, we document a critical problem area we have been researching – namely, how to provide sustainable pathways for longer-term hosting of digital curation and preservation training materials and programming for library and archives professionals.
In this relatively brief project, we laid a strong foundation for future work. We focused our efforts on increasing relationships and partnerships between trainers, hosts, and funders of continuing education offerings, and on learning from each others’ experiences and observations. The net result of our work is summarized within this compilation, but it also actively lives on in our collaborative network of core project partners.
This report compilation opens with a brief introduction to the challenges in building, disseminating, and maintaining digital curation and preservation training content and programs. It then provides an overview of the project’s scope and methods, including the facilitation methodology that guided our two in-person project meetings, in which much of our discovery work took place. Finally, we provide synthesized documentation of our findings, including 1) experiences in trying to maintain training content and educational experiences over time, and 2) a set of options and pipelines towards sustainability that we believe that both we and other creators and hosts of projects that produce educational resources should consider.
This report serves as a compilation of two reports produced in a one-year project, “Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training,” which was conducted from July 2018 to June 2019, through the generous funding of the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
In this compilation, we document a critical problem area we have been researching – namely, how to provide sustainable pathways for longer-term hosting of digital curation and preservation training materials and programming for library and archives professionals.
In this relatively brief project, we laid a strong foundation for future work. We focused our efforts on increasing relationships and partnerships between trainers, hosts, and funders of continuing education offerings, and on learning from each others’ experiences and observations. The net result of our work is summarized within this compilation, but it also actively lives on in our collaborative network of core project partners.
This report compilation opens with a brief introduction to the challenges in building, disseminating, and maintaining digital curation and preservation training content and programs. It then provides an overview of the project’s scope and methods, including the facilitation methodology that guided our two in-person project meetings, in which much of our discovery work took place. Finally, we provide synthesized documentation of our findings, including 1) experiences in trying to maintain training content and educational experiences over time, and 2) a set of options and pipelines towards sustainability that we believe that both we and other creators and hosts of projects that produce educational resources should consider.
The final report above contains edited versions of the two earlier reports below:
