Presentation by Prof Dr. Dorothee Haffner University of Applied Sciences Berlin Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum: a DigCurV Workshop 10 December 2012 Firenze (Florence), Italy

1. Responses to the Framework:
Practitioner Lens
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Haffner
HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences,
Museum Studies
haffner@htw-berlin.de
DigCurv Workshop: Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum
www.langzeitarchivierung.de Florence, 10th December 2012

2. Content of the lenses
• Content in general is regarded as appropriate
• To improve: change the weight of the four areas
• Most important for the practitioners: Knowledge and
Intellectual Abilities (about 75 %)
• Importance to focus on the digital preservation and curation-
specific aspects
• Suggestion: further differentiation – describe the variety and
complexity of the curation-specific tasks more detailed
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3. Suggestions for the Improvement
• Most wanted: practical advices on very concrete questions
• Consequence: Specify practical skills, improve the functional,
hands-on effect
• Description of the skills should be activity-oriented: „… is able
to do …“
• Harmonise the description of the actual compentences
• Differentiate between „soft skills“ and „hard skills“
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4. Suggestions for the Improvement
• Identify the different roles of practitioners more clearly, e. g.:
– Someone who is digitising
– Someone who is doing preservation planning and technology watch
– Someone who is an IT specialist
– And others
• Regard also the difference in the material:
– Analogue materials being digitised (Digitisation)
– Born-digital Materials (regarding the whole process)
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5. Suggestions for the Improvement
• Define several personas, roles, use cases
• Develop distinct profiles of the knowledge, skills and
compentences needed in any case
• Profiles should refer to activities in different stages of the
digital lifecycle (from production to dissemination)
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6. Summary
• Concentrate on the „Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities
Area“ and differentiate this area using roles and developping
profiles of knowledge
• Adapt the layout in order to reflect the weighting of the
different areas
• Harmonise the wording, describe the contents in a more
detailed way
• Rethink the audience levels
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7. • Project planning concepts and techniques • Digital curation and • Information- and records- management
• Understanding management and monitoring of project plans preservation terminology principles
• Common project management activities and innovative practices • Subject-specific • Benefits and long-term value of collections
• Understanding data management requirements definitions • Institutional policies, including criteria, for
• Producing relevant information for decision-making • Technology definitions selection / appraisal
• Dealing with data curation challenges through structured planning and skills
• Digital curation and
preservation techniques Selection / • Long-term evaluation of
• Audit of curation functions
Appraisal technologies for digital
• Certification of repositories or
curation
programs
• Usability evaluation
• Standards for audit and
Project Subject • User needs analysis
certification Audit and
Certification Management Knowledge Evaluation
• Risk management theory • Data structures and types
Studies
and standards • File types and systems
• Risk management practice • Databases
and techniques in digital Project Knowledge and • Metadata Standards
repositories Risk Management and Intellectual • Information seeking
• Assessment, analysis, Management Information • Information access and
monitoring and
Quality Assurance Abilities Literacy sharing
communication of risks
Practitioner Lens
• Understanding of social • Understanding of
and ethical responsibility Ethics, Integrity malpractice (fraud,
in digital curation Principles and Professional Personal plagiarism)
• Understanding of and Sustainability Conduct Qualities • Understanding of
adherence to principles of responsibility, accountability
ethical conduct and good practice in digital
• Understanding of need to Communication curation
manage, share and curate IPR and Skills
Legal Responsiveness to
items ethically Copyright
Requirements Change
• Cross-disciplinary communication
• Understanding of legal framework in which • Ability to disseminate information to
• Maintaining continuous awareness of
• Understanding of information curation is taking place, e.g. data protection, relevant stakeholders
new and emerging developments
and data ownership principles freedom of information, moral rights • Understanding of communication
• Translating current digital curation
• Understanding of copyright • Domain policies and standards for management protocols
knowledge into new services and
and IPR policies and legislation and preservation of digital records • Ability to articulate extent of
tools
for digital materials • Understanding of institutional policy knowledge and explain relevance and
• Assessing, extending and generating
• Validation techniques against framework in which digital repositories operate importance of digital curation to
digital curation models for cultural
copyright infringement • Application of concomitant actions peers, other staff and wider public
heritage domain

8. • Digital curation and
preservation terminology • Information- and records- management
• Subject-specific principles
definitions • Benefits and long-term value of collections
• Technology definitions • Institutional policies, including criteria, for
and skills selection / appraisal
• Digital curation and
preservation techniques
Selection /
Appraisal
Subject • Long-term evaluation of
Knowledge technologies for digital
curation
• Usability evaluation
Project Evaluation • User needs analysis
Audit and Management Studies
Certification
• Data structures and types
• File types and systems
Project Knowledge and • Databases
Risk Information • Metadata Standards
Management and Intellectual • Information seeking
Management Literacy
Quality Assurance Abilities • Information access and
sharing
Practitioner Lens
Ethics,
Principles and Professional Personal Integrity
Sustainability Conduct Qualities
IPR and Legal Responsiveness to Communication
Copyright Requirements Change Skills