COURSE DETAILS

Programme      :           Masters of Library and Information

Course             :           Data Curation

Course Code   :           MLIS 6204

Semester          :           April –July, 2019

Lesson             :           One

Date                :           Monday, 6th April, 2019

Time                :           8am to 11 am

Venue              :           LIS House 2

COURSE LECTURER

Winner Chawinga (PhD student)

University of the Western Cape

South Africa

Email: winnchawinga@gmail.com

AIM OF LESSON

·      Understand and apply the concept of Data Curation

Expected outcomes

·         Students to discuss historical perspectives of data curation in relation to advancement of ICTs

·         Student discuss the contributing factors from digital preservation to data curation

·         Students to articulate various terms that are relevant to the concept of data curation as  conceptualised by various authors 

A         ACTIVITY 

Students are required to read the following articles in preparation for the lesson:

Key recourse (must read before class time)

Higgins, S. (2011). Digital curation: the emergence of a new discipline. The International Journal of          Digital Curation, 2(6):78-88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.191

Additional resources

Constantopoulos, P., Dallas, C., Androutsopoulos, I., Angelis, S., Deligiannakis, A., Gavrilis,       D.,          &  Papatheodorou, C. (2009). DCC&U: An extended digital curation lifecycle model.                           International Journal of Digital Curation, 4(1):34-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v4i1.76

Gordon-Murnane, L. (2012). Big data: A big opportunity for librarians. Online, 36(5):30-34

Noonan, D., & Chute, T. (2014). Data curation and the university archives. American  Archivist,                 77(1):201-240. https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.77.1.m49r46526847g587

Walters, T., & Skinner, K. (2011). New roles for new times: Digital curation for preservation.                     Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. Retrieved from                                                       http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED527702.pdf(Accessed November 12, 2017).