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JISC ICE Forum 2011 report
The International Curation Education (‘ICE’) Forum brought together university and professional educators and trainers from diverse areas of digital preservation at University College, London. Around seventy people were in attendance.
Neil Grindley of JISC set the scene by challenging the audience to consider what forms of digital curation education are needed, what approaches are currently being used, what skills and knowledge about tools and resources do people need, and how we can most effectively share practice and resources.
A range of speakers involved in digital curation education and training from the USA, UK and EC-funded projects offered perspectives on current efforts to ascertain the core skills of professionals working in digital curation and preservation, what employers’ future needs are emerging and how we can best prepare future graduates in this area to be competent professionals.
Researchers, research funders, teaching academics, librarians and archivists engaged in lively discussion and the event also provided opportunities for focused networking and for 3-minute talks from participants. HATII will work with JISC in production of further documentation of the event.
A detailed report, including audience comments, is available.
The JISC and DCC may run a follow-up event as part of the Closing the Digital Curation Gap project in late 2011 early 2012.
William Kilbride (DPC), Laura Molloy (HATII)
Glasgow, July 2011
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