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CURATEcamp OR11, 06/06/11
Notes taken by moderators during the camp are online at http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_OR11_Ideas
There's a Digital Curation Google group with 450+ members, for ongoing idea-sharing among the wider community.
Highlights from my own notes include:
- a list of tools to explore (Archivematica, Curator's Workbench, bag-it)
- model institutions with successful strategies & policies (UNC, UMN)
- ideas for improving ingest strategies (effective analogies between traditional technical services and digital curation workflows; customizable ingest interfaces for different users or collections)
- the 100 year view in considering what to keep
- useful resources we could provide to facilitate/expedite preservation decisions (boilerplate NSF data management plan for researchers like UCSD does; list of disciplinary repositories and metadata schema)
- Partnership model at UC San Diego - libraries partnering with supercomputer center for storage + partnership with office of research - library as broker for these services with the users/scholars. Their supercomputer is mostly on soft $$, but hopes to move toward hard $$.
- thoughts on strategies for collecting faculty web output (ArchiveIt, Internet Archive, wget, anthologize wordpress plugin)
- ideas for capitalizing on IT more effectively in library context (including developers in policy building process; using common language in planning, like the systems model approach; http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ cited as excellent resource)
- Melanie Cofield, 06/09/11