Digital Curation of Digital Cultural

Assets: Mutual interest of ALaRMMs

Some Definitions...

ALaRMMs

The term used to describe Archivists, Librarians, Record Managers and

Museum professionals.

Digital Curation

The term digital curation is...the actions needed to maintain digital research data

and other digital materials over their entire life-cycle and over time for current and

future generations of users. (DCC)

Digital Cultural Assets and Heritage

The digital heritage consists of unique resources of human knowledge and

expression. It embraces cultural, educational, scientific and administrative

resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information

created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources.

Where resources are “born digital”, there is no other format but the digital object.

(UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage)

Information Challenges

Heterogenous digital platforms:

EDMS, email systems (commercial & institutional), file servers, file cabinets/ file

rooms, HEI Instant Messaging & collaboration systems, BYOD systems, cloud-based

systems such as: social media sites, wikis and blogs.

Areas for Convergence & Collaboration

Worthy of Note...

Archival Community

ICA-AtoM - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/ica-atom

UNESCO/PERSIST - https://www.ica.org/en/networking/about-unescopersist

Librarian Community

Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) - https://www.ifla.org/pac

Records Management

The International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) -

http://www.interpares.org/

Museum Community

ICA-AtoM - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/ica-atom

Caribbean Regional Framework for the

Protection of Traditional Knowledge,

Traditional Cultural Expressions and

Genetic Resourceshttps://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partners

hip/?p=7663

Regional Initiatives

Source: UNGA (A/RES/70/1), 2015

EU-LAC-MUSEUMS and the Virtual

Museum of the Caribbeanhttp://eu-lac.org/virtual-museums/

Where exactly should be the priority?…

long term stewardship of digital assets is the responsibility of

everyone in the digital information value chain”

New “digital goods” in the Knowledge Economy - artefacts as

diverse as computer games, digital art, and electronic records

Digital Stewardship - selection, maintenance, collection and

archiving of digital assets in addition to their

preservation….satisfyingly brings preservation and curation

together

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