Digital Curation : One more career option

Tweet Archives and records management programs are designed to prepare students for positions in - what else? - archives and records management. But the skills and knowledge gained are transferable to other professions, such as Digital Curation.

The following definitions can be found on the Digitization 101: Digital Curation blog:
Digital Curation (definition)

Digital curation, broadly interpreted, is about maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use. (DCC)

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)

... it is the active management and appraisal of digital information over its entire life cycle. (Pennock)

Archivists and records managers are also required to master the art of storing, managing and protecting digital data  And in the US, the Records Management Lifecycle is a familar model used to describe records from their creation through disposition, including preservation.

Upon graduation you may find you not only are prepared for but might even be eager to pursue a career in digital curation.

To learn more, visit the following sites:

    * Digitization 101
    * Digital Curation Center
    * DigCCurr (Digital Curation Ph.D. Fellowship)

There are many options available to graduates of MLIS and MARA programs.  You may or may not pursue a career in digitial curation, but you can be ready for it.  So, for now, keep it on your list of career possibilities.