Keepers of Our Digital Future: An Assessment of the National Digital Stewardship Residencies, 2013–2016

In this article we report on the distribution of authority over information practices observed in a postgraduate taught course at a large research university located in the UK. The course was designed using principles from information literacy (IL) pedagogy and represents the operationalisation of Radical Information Literacy (RIL) theory. By analysing course documentation, assessed online discussion board posts and through interviews with teaching staff and students we examine how and why the distribution of authority is a complex matter; not least that the liberatory intentions of the Programme Director actually contain repressive dimensions in practice. We identify that students are subjected to techniques of disciplinary power, including surveillance and normalisation, and that they resist these by communicating outside of official discussion board spaces. Such resistance is not necessarily problematic, as it enables learning. Notably, students demonstrate development of IL practices through, for example, shaping their information landscapes, digital stewardship and critical reflection.

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What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies

10.31229/osf.io/tnmra ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Karl-Rainer Blumenthal ◽

Peggy Griesinger ◽

Julia Kim ◽

Shira Peltzman ◽

Vicky Steeves

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Information Science ◽

Future Generations ◽

Library And Information Science ◽

American Library ◽

Professional Success ◽

Digital Objects ◽

Digital Stewardship ◽

Term Management

Digital stewardship is a rapidly maturing field within library and information science. This domain engages in the active and long-term management of digital objects towards their preservation for and unencumbered access by future generations. Although this field is growing quickly, it lacks a compentancy profile for practioners that is commonplace in LIS (example: the American Library Association's Core Compentencies of Librarianship).This study sought to fill that gap by creating a profile of the skills, responsibilities, and knowledge areas that define competency in digital stewardship, based on three key datasets: 1) literature in the field through a literature review (to define the scope of the profile), 2) NDSR project descriptions, qualitatively analyzed to get a baseline understanding of expected competencies 3) the results of a survey given to current and past NDSR residents, quantitively evaluated to illustrate competencies’ importance to professional success.

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HathiTrust and Local Digital Stewardship: A Case Study in How Massive Digital Libraries Affect Local Digital Resources Decisions

International Journal of Librarianship ◽

10.23974/ijol.2017.vol2.1.11 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 32

Author(s):

Heidi M. Winkler ◽

Joy M. Perrin

Keyword(s):

Digital Libraries ◽

Academic Library ◽

Digital Preservation ◽

Modern World ◽

Digital Resources ◽

Digital Curation ◽

Digital Collection ◽

History Of ◽

Digital Stewardship

This article reviews the influence that massive digital libraries like the HathiTrust Digital Library can have on local, smaller institutions’ digitization, preservation, and curation programs. The history of HathiTrust’s digital preservation efforts as a Trusted Repository is reviewed. A case study is presented showing how one academic library made difficult digital stewardship decisions in a modern world of globally federated preservation initiatives. The authors introduce the concept of deselection as part of the digital curation process and discuss how digital collection administrators can refine their local digital preservation efforts to better reflect the realities of constrained human and financial resources.

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The Intersection of Digital Humanities and Artistic Augmented/Virtual Reality Research in Hong Kong

Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 19-41

Author(s):

Eugenia S. Kim

Keyword(s):

Virtual Reality ◽

Hong Kong ◽

Creative Process ◽

Digital Humanities ◽

Data Curation ◽

Digital Multimedia ◽

Management Processes ◽

Research Sector ◽

Digital Stewardship ◽

Immersive Media

Immersive media such as augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) environments are growing in popularity both globally and in Hong Kong. In the artistic research sector, these projects may or may not have systematic digital preservation, data curation, or other digital stewardship components built into the creative process. Although digital multimedia preservation has been a long-standing topic of discussion for archivists, the complexity of immersive media projects raises questions regarding best practices and ensuring future accessibility. The author proposes that artistic AR/VR research in Hong Kong could benefit from the application of digital humanities practices, whether it be for archival, research, or further artistic purposes. This chapter reviews case studies in Hong Kong academic institutions to identify existing needs and makes recommendations for incorporating digital humanities practices into the creative and project management processes.

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Planning for the End from the Start: An Argument for Digital Stewardship, Long-Term Thinking and Alternative Capture Approaches for Digital Content

Digital Cultural Heritage ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-15200-0_15 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 209-237

Author(s):

Somaya Langley

Keyword(s):

Digital Content ◽

Digital Stewardship

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Defining digital stewardship in the digital age

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v12i7.1927 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane M. Zorich

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Digital Age ◽

Digital Form ◽

Conference Presentations ◽

Digital Stewardship

The 2007 WebWise Conference on “Stewardship in the Digital Age” brought together over 40 speakers to explore the issues of preserving and accessing cultural heritage in digital form. The following article summarizes the conference presentations, prevailing themes, and challenges that remain, and suggests that digitization forces us to rethink assumptions about preservation and access in the context of cultural stewardship.

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