Libraries in the Digital Age: The Emerging Discipline of Digital Curation

摘要

The emerging discipline, profession, and practice of digital curation and preservation was one of two meeting themes at the bi- annual Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference, held June 13-17 in Zadar, Croatia. Heather Moulaison of the University of Missouri presented this topic in a session called Making Digital Library Content Available Now and in the Future. Moulaison noted that information professionals have been curat-ing and preserving for years, but digital formats are presenting new challenges. She traced the concept of curator and defined the emerging concept of digital curation as "maintaining, preserving, and adding value to digital research data ... throughout its lifecycle." She said that previous notions of preserving and conserving are made more complex in the digital environment. Standards and authenticity are considered key issues.