Digital Curation UNESCO（数字内容管理联合国教科文组织）.pdf

Digital Curation The Challenge Driving Convergence across Memory Institutions Sarah Higgins Abstract Collaboration between libraries, archives and museums (LAMS) is undertaken in a continuum which starts with an initial understanding of the differences between the disciplines, and can lead to full convergence with a shared mission and delivery of shared services. Collaboration brings increasing benefits in resource efficiencies and user uptake as participating organizations progress through the continuum. It is in the area of digital content creation and management that the synergies of the disciplines are most often harnessed through cooperative exploration, coordinated projects and collaborative services. This paper examines and extends the Collaboration Continuum first identified by Soehner1 and elaborated by Zorich, Gunter, and Erway 2 through analyises of the existing research into the nature of LAM collaboration, and identification of the core ethical differences which govern seemingly similar agenda. The paper propses digital curation as the “change agent” which will bring about full convergence between the professions, as they move through the digital content and management continuum. Author Sarah Higgins lectures in Archives Administration and Records Management at Aberystwyth University, where her research focuses on the lifecycle management of digital materials. She was formerly at the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) where she led the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model Project and the standards advisory function. She moved to the DCC from the University of Edinburgh where she undertook various metadata deve