Introduction
The number of projects and institutions providing training and education on aspects of digital curation has increased dramatically in recent years, resulting in a vast and often overwhelming number of courses for potential attendees to consider. It is clear that increased collaboration is needed in order to establish a more coordinated approach.
Participants from a number of US, EU, and UK digital curation initiatives took part in several joint workshops led by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and 2009, which focused on developing an international curation training and education roadmap. As a result of the discussions, participants have established the International Digital curation Education and Action (IDEA) Working Group.
Mission
- Minimize duplication of effort in the provision of digital preservation training and education programs
- Describe, promote and contextualize current training and education offerings
- Identify and exploit collaborative training and education opportunities
- Maximize interdisciplinary training and education opportunities
- Develop a shared digital preservation training infrastructure to enable reuse of training and education materials
- Ensure synergy and complementarity between emerging curation and preservation education programmes with professional development training courses