Advancing Research and Practice in Digital Curation and Publishing. Summary Report and Recommendations of the Workshop on Next Steps in Research, Education and Practice

摘要

Speakers at the conference on June 24-25 discussed the changing roles of (1) publishers, who are faced with the pressure to take responsibility for supplementary material, including an increasing number of datasets of growing complexity; (2) librarians, as they increasingly manage digital assets and develop data management services; and, (3) researchers, who increasingly create and depend on digital data. The role of digital repositories, which support all of these activities, provided an organizing theme to explore common ground. Understanding how to support digital curation is a central challenge and opportunity for publishers, libraries, data centers, museums, archives, and other data-centric organizations. Although publishers, researchers, librarians and other cultural heritage and information professionals have had long-standing interrelationships, the opportunities for working collaboratively to develop new publications and data curation business models for the digital environment have not yet been sufficiently explored.