The Conceptual Landscape of Digital Curation

What is it about?

This paper defines and describes digital curation, an emerging field of theory and practice in the information professions that embraces digital preservation, data curation, and information management of assets over their lifecycle. A vital counterweight to the problem of data loss, digital curation also adds value to trusted data assets for current and future use. This paper unpacks data, the research enterprise, the roles and responsibilities of digital curation professionals, the data lifecycle, metadata, sharing and reuse, scholarly communication (cyberscholarship, publication and citation, and rights), infrastructure (archives, centers, libraries, and institutional repositories), and overarching issues (standards, governance and policy, planning and Data Management Plans (DMPs), risk management, evaluation, and metrics, sustainability, and outreach).

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