Digital Curation for GLAMP Professionals - Stewardship in the Age of AI

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Session 1: Foundations for Modern Digital Stewardship - On-Demand

Goal: Establish core concepts and the lifecycle of digital curation

Topics:

• Digital curation as stewardship, infrastructure, and strategy
• Digital curation vs digital asset management
• The DCC Lifecycle Model 
• Digital collections as data: from files to datasets
• Appraisal and selection for reuse, openness, and machine readability
• Risks and opportunities of AI in cultural heritage contexts

Session Resource:

• Audit a sample digital collection for reuse potential and AI readiness

Session 2: Access, Reuse, and the Future of Digital Publishing - On-Demand

Goal: Understanding best practice in how curated digital collections are published, reused, and connected across platforms and communities.

Topics:

• Access and discoverability strategies
• Rights, licensing, and ethical considerations, machine-readable rights and reuse
• Reuse for education, scholarship, and community engagement
• Publishing collections for reuse: APIs, IIIF, bulk downloads, publishing for human users vs machine consumption
• Aggregators and open platforms (DPLA, Europeana, Wikimedia, IA)
• Digital exhibitions as data sources, not just endpoints

Session Resource:

• A digital collection’s access strategy, including access and reuse permissions.

Session 3: Building Trustworthy Metadata for Digital Collections - On-Demand

Goal: Demonstrate how metadata supports interoperability, Linked Open Data publishing, and AI-driven discovery, and equip participants to select metadata frameworks that support trust, transparency, interoperability, and reuse.

Topics:

• Metadata types and how they support reuse, provenance, and discovery
• Standards in practice: Dublin Core, PREMIS, METS, schema.org
• Introduction to Linked Open Data concepts (URIs, RDF, vocabularies)
• Introduction to Authority control, identifiers (Wikidata, VIAF, ORCID), and reconciliation
• AI-assisted metadata creation: benefits, risks, and quality control

Session Resource:

• A metadata profile optimized for both preservation and open discovery.

Session 4: Strategy, Ethics & A Sustainable Future - On-Demand
 

Goal: Equip participants to develop a strategy for sustainable and ethical digital curation programs.

Topics:

• Writing curation plans that include AI, LOD, and open access goals
• Governance for AI use, metadata automation, and data reuse
• Sustainability models: grants, partnerships, shared infrastructure
• Digital repatriation, indigenous data sovereignty, and ethical AI
• Measuring impact beyond page views: reuse, citations, integrations
• Aligning open digital curation with institutional missions

Session Resource:

• A digital curation strategy