Interested in designing and implementing a statewide, cohort-based digital preservation training program (or something similar)? Let us help you get started!
We gathered and organized some of the most useful materials created during Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), an IMLS-funded program from 2017-2019 that paired graduate students with small or under-resourced cultural heritage organizations to complete digital preservation projects.
You are welcome to use these materials to develop your own program. Program and curriculum materials are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
“I feel that the training I received from CCDC gave me the confidence and understanding of the field I need when reentering the workforce.”
– CCDC student participant
Included in this starter package are sample planning documents, timelines and schedules, outreach and communications to program participants, and other resources we created for CCDC. Program content and immersion workshop materials are located in the zip files (below). To begin, take a look at the following:
- Checklist for planning and launching CCDC [doc|pdf]
- Program content & logistics
- Annotated description of zip file contents [doc|pdf]
- Zip file containing program content
- Immersion workshop curriculum
- Annotated description of zip file contents [doc|pdf]
- Zip file containing immersion workshop content
“I wouldn’t have had the knowledge to write a successful grant without being involved in CCDC.”
– CCDC participant
Let us know if you use our program materials. We’d love to hear your experience. Questions? Contact info@recollectionwisconsin.org.
About CCDC
From 2017-2019, WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) and Recollection Wisconsin partnered with the iSchool at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies to provide library school students with practical experience in digital stewardship and increase the capacity of small libraries and cultural heritage organizations to curate their digital collections. Over two years, 16 students and 14 host institutions received training and mentoring in digital stewardship and worked together to manage, preserve and provide access to digital content.
Through program support, mentoring, training and collaborative learning opportunities, participants gained confidence and competence in digital stewardship work following the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Levels of Digital Preservation. Students developed preservation workflows and preservation policies for their host site’s digitized or born-digital content, providing the foundation for their continued digital preservation work. Additional project documentation and related materials can be found on the CCDC website.
This project was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, #RE-85-17-0127-17. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of IMLS.
