Digital Collections Stewardship 1: Introduction

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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. Learning Objectives 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.

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.

Taking this course

Follow the steps below to complete this course:

1. Watch this Welcome video

2. Download the Digital Collections Stewardship Workbook 1: Introduction

   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.

 

3. Complete the Course Module

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

Course Resources

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.

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