1. Patricia B. Condon Simmons College patticondon@yahoo.com @pattibcondon Society of American Archivist Research Forum Washington, DC August 12, 2014 Disciplining Digital Curation? What it means to be an emerging field

2. Research Questions Is digital curation emerging as an autonomous discipline?  In what ways do interviewees describe the relationship of digital curation to areas within the information disciplines?  Are there indicators that suggest digital curation is emerging as a discipline in its own right? Where does digital curation fit within the educational landscape?  To what extent do interviewees express the role of education in the knowledge transfer of digital curation practices, skills, and theories?

3. Methodologies and Sources of DataTotal Content Analysis (three sub-samples, 2001-2013) 460 Qualitative Interviews (international sample from digital curation community) 14 Methodology

4. Intellectual Field of Inquiry Styles of Subjectivity Narrative Accumulated Knowledge Discursive Community Institutional Infrastructure Professional Association Academic Organizational Unit Curriculum Publishers Social Networks Elements of a discipline and shallow consensus D’Agostino, F. (2012). Disciplinarity and the Growth of Knowledge. Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, 26:3-4, 331-350. Conceptual Framework

5. Explore the Data Academic Field of Publication of the top 5% most cited articles retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science, 2001-2013 (n=170) Journals by Discipline

6. Explore the Data Discipline by Keyword InformationTechnologyLifePhysicalSocialGeneral Data Archiving1 817128 2 Data Curation 10 3 21 1-- Data Preservation12-1-2 Data Stewardship--12-- Digital Archiving343--- Digital Curation4----- Digital Preservation 2811 122- Digital Stewardship------ Multiple322---

7. Findings Is digital curation emerging as an autonomous discipline? ▫ Digital curation is not an autonomous discipline, but does meet several of the criteria to indicate its potential for emergence. Where does digital curation fit within the educational landscape? ▫ It fits well with LIS/Archive education programs, but the complete answer is more complex.

8. patticondon@yahoo.com @pattibcondon Thank you to the 2014 SAA Research Forum organizers. Thank you to the IMLS-funded Building the Future of Archival Education and Research Initiative, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College for supporting this research through a doctoral fellowship. Thank you to my interview participants for being generous with their time, and thoughtful and candid in their remarks. Thank you to my dissertation committee: Jeannette Bastian, Ross Harvey, Martha Mahard, and Nancy McGovern. Special thanks: Eliot Wilczek and Heather Soyka. Thank you!