Digital Collections Stewardship 7: Sharing

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Overview The Enhance stage of the Digital Stewardship Lifecycle comprises work to make your digital collections usable, meangingful, and findable for both your organization and your community. The training is organized around our five stage digital stewardship lifecycle model. This course covers the Digitizing stage. Other courses cover Introduction, Preparing, Gathering, Enhancing, Saving, and Sharing. The training encourages a community-based and culturally informed approach to digital collections stewardship throughout the lifecycle stages. We recognize that your communities and organizations have unique needs, and we encourage you to customize policies, tools, activities and goals based on your community, culture, organizational structure, and language(s). In each course, we highlight opportunities for identifying and responding to these needs. We call these opportunities Cultural Checks. Learning Objectives After successfully completing this course, you will be able to: Identify a digital collections sharing method that meets your institutional and community needs Understand the range of functionality available in different types of collections management systems, and how to go about selecting one that best fits your needs Determine and document any access and use considerations for your collections Identify Intellectual Property needs and considerations for your collections

Overview

The Enhance stage of the Digital Stewardship Lifecycle comprises work to make your digital collections usable, meangingful, and findable for both your organization and your community.

The training is organized around our five stage digital stewardship lifecycle model. This course covers the Digitizing stage. Other courses cover Introduction, Preparing, Gathering, Enhancing, Saving, and Sharing. The training encourages a community-based and culturally informed approach to digital collections stewardship throughout the lifecycle stages. We recognize that your communities and organizations have unique needs, and we encourage you to customize policies, tools, activities and goals based on your community, culture, organizational structure, and language(s). In each course, we highlight opportunities for identifying and responding to these needs. We call these opportunities Cultural Checks.

Learning Objectives

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

Identify a digital collections sharing method that meets your institutional and community needs
Understand the range of functionality available in different types of collections management systems, and how to go about selecting one that best fits your needs
Determine and document any access and use considerations for your collections
Identify Intellectual Property needs and considerations for your collections

Tips for success with this training

We’ve compiled some tips to help you get the most out of this program and increase the success of your digital projects.

This course series is also available to take on the on the OCLC WebJunction website, where learners can create a login to complete the courses, track their progress, and use the discussion forum in conversation with other learners.

Taking this course

Follow the steps below to complete this course:

Download the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook 7: Sharing

This editable workbook contains the activities for the course module. In the course module, you will be directed to the workbook to complete a digital collections initial planning task. The completed workbooks from each course combine to make an action plan for your digital collections stewardship implementation. Activities will refer to, and build on, the activities in previous courses, so please, keep this workbook if you intend to take further courses in the series. If you have not completed course 6 Saving, also download Workbook 2.
Complete the Course Module

The Digital Stewardship 7: Sharing module (available below) will take about 1 hour to complete, including the activities using the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook.

Course Resources

Sharing Course Handouts

A zipped package of all the downloadable handouts from the course module.

Sharing Course External Links

All the web links from the course module, plus additional resources for Sharing course topics (this is also in the handouts package above).

Digital Collections Stewardship Resources

Additional resources related to the Digital Collections Resources course series.

About the Digital Collections Stewardship Practitioners

You’ll meet several practitioners during the Digital Collections Stewardship course series. Read their introductions and learn more about their communities and their digital collections work.

This course series is also available to take on the on the OCLC WebJunction website, where learners can create a login to complete the courses, track their progress, and use the discussion forum in conversation with other learners.