Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative: A Case Study
Since its creation nearly a decade ago, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model has become the quintessential framework for understanding digital curation. Organizations and consortia around the world have used the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a tool to ensure that all the necessary stages of digital curation are undertaken, to define roles and responsibilities, and to build a framework of standards and technologies for digital curation. Yet, research on the application of the model to large scale digitization projects as a way of understanding their efforts at digital curation is scant. This paper reports on findings of a qualitative case study analysis of Indiana University Bloomington's multi million dollar Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (MDPI) employing the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model as a lens for examining the scope and effectiveness of its digital curation efforts. Findings underscore the success of MDPI in performing digital curation by illustrating the ways it implements each of the model's components. Implications for the application of the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model in understanding digital curation for mass digitization projects are discussed as well as directions for future research. Received 9 July 2017 Revision received 4 May 2018 Accepted 7 May 2018 Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Devan Ray Donaldson, 700 N. Woodlawn Avenue, Luddy Hall 2126, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Bloomington, IN, USA, 47408. Email: drdonald@indiana.edu The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. The IJDC is published by the University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. ISSN: 1746 8256. URL: http:/www.ijdc.net/ Copyright rests with the authors. This work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence, version 4.0. For details please see https:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ International Journal of Digital Curation 2018, Vol. 13, Iss. 1, 91 113 91 http:/dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v13i1.502 DOI: 10.2218/ijdc.v13i1.502 92 Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative doi:10.2218/ijdc.v13i1.502
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