Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: WebJunction, in collaboration with Washington State University's Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation
Length: 1 hour
Overview
Defines digital collections and introduces the digital stewardship lifecycle, a model that describes all the tasks and activities related to creating, organizing, managing, preserving, and sharing digital collections. This course also
begins an exploration of how you might shape your own digital stewardship work to meet your community needs and institutional goals.
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify examples of digital collections
- Describe what digital collections are, what they can include and the purposes they can serve
- Understand the range of physical objects that you can digitize, and the born digital objects that you might incorporate into a digital collection
- Describe digital stewardship, and each stage of the digital stewardship lifecycle
- Be able to begin to adapt the digital stewardship lifecycle to fit your institution and community
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