1. Towards a framework for education and training of digital curators
Zinaida Manžuch
Institute of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University
LIDA 2008, Dubrovnik, 4 June

2. Aims and outline Urgent demand for educating digital curators
Aim: to determine the main priorities for education and training of digital curators (DC)
Topics discussed:
Digital curation concept & current landscape
Structure and teaching priorities in DC education
Conceptual model of DC education and training
Based on:
DigitalPreservationEurope findings (see
Experience in LIS Education in Europe

3. Digital curation concept
Digital curation – extending life-cycle of digital documents – born-digital and digitised
Changes:
Dependency on technology obsolescence, complex and dynamic structure of digital documents
Covers all cycle of resource management activities (curation)
Preservation of accessibility

4. Digital curation landscape

5. Structuring the content of DC education & training
The need for unifying principle: danger of fragmentation
Proper mix of social, cultural, organizational and technological aspects of DC
Integration of DC into broader context of archival, library and museum (ALM) activities
Interchange of knowledge in ALM sector

6. Some pre-requisites for DC structuring priorities
The scope of current DC training events

7. Teaching priorities for DC education and training
Learning objectives - educating professional capable:
to work in fluid environments
to cope with ambiguous situations
New vision for competency
Balance between research and practice

8. Conceptual model of DC education & training
Higher Education
Conceptual knowledge
Operational knowledge
Technical skills
Vocational training

9. Conclusions
Digital curators – educators and consultants of diverse communities
DC should rely on knowledge base of archivistics, LIS and museology
DC is a reflective professional
DC education provides a proper mix of “know how” and “know why”
DC is oriented to problem-based learning

10. Thank you for attention!
Zinaida Manžuch
Institute of Library and Information Science
Faculty of Communication
Vilnius University