Abstract
According to Yakel (2007), “Digital Curation is the active involvement of information professionals in the management, including the preservation, of digital data for future use” (p. 335). The call for papers for this special issue stated, “digital curation involves the selection, maintenance, dissemination, preservation and adding value to digital assets. Examples of these activities include the development of repositories for digital resources, the creation and/or selection of digital assets; creation and management of metadata; file format identification and management, and provision for dissemination and access to digital assets”. In creating a special issue, the guest editors posited that digital curation has much relevance to the archival community.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 97–100 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Archival Science |
| Volume | 15 |
| Early online date | 3 Mar 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2015 |
Keywords
- digital curation
- archival science
- library science