Digital Curation Preparation: A Survey of Contributors to International Professional, Educational, and Research Venues

Abstract

This paper characterizes the types of research environments in which individuals engaged in digital curation research are embedded or have recently been educated. It reports data from an international survey of individuals who have presented their work in professional venues (conferences and journals) that address digital curation. We address a fundamental research question: What are the contexts in which digital curation research is being conducted? More specifically: (a) In what disciplinary and institutional contexts are stakeholders conducting digital curation education and research? (b) How do digital curation researchers characterize the field and their own work? (c) How do digital curation researchers describe their current and projected research environments? (d) What are the primary venues of engagement with the digital curation research network? Findings indicated that few respondents were students at the time of their contribution. Most respondents occupied senior-level roles or were faculty members, but few job titles included the term “curation. ” Respondents had a range of skill sets and had come to digital curation activities from varied career paths and undergraduate and graduate degrees. More than four-fifths of respondents had earned master’s degrees and 13.5 % had earned two master’s degrees. While

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