Digital Curation and Higher Education IT: Lessons from the National Agenda for Digital Stewardship

Digital stewardship is vital for the authenticity of public records, the reliability of scientific evidence, and the enduring accessibility to our cultural heritage. Knowledge of ongoing research, practice, and organizational collaborations has been distributed widely across disciplines, sectors, and communities of practice. The National Agenda for Digital Stewardship (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/nationalagenda/) annually integrates the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions, convened through the Library of Congress, to identify the highest-impact opportunities that advance the state of the art, the state of practice, and the state of collaboration within the next three to five years.

OBJECTIVES: Understand key stewardship goals, concepts, and terms * Be able to identify potential organizational needs for digital curation and potential stakeholders * Understand major trends in digital curation and be able to identify sources of information that will enable you to efficiently monitor current trends and opportunities