Curate Cloud: A Program to Build Digital Curation Adoption through Professional Education, Cloud Computing and Community Outreach

June 1st, 2013 - May 30th, 2016 | PROJECT

The University of Maryland's project, Curate Cloud: Building Digital Curation Excellence through Professional Education, Cloud Computing and Community Outreach, will provide cultural heritage institutions with tools and resources to help them evaluate, select, and implement digital curation solutions. The project focuses on underrepresented institutions, developing and deploying an innovative research and learning environment that will lower financial, technical, and infrastructure barriers. Twenty mid-career professionals will enroll in a new certificate program to gain theoretical and practical knowledge about digital curation and cloud computing and will design and implement their own cloud-based curated collections. Curate Cloud will help transform the field by developing an open-source research and educational platform and by removing barriers to access for curation tools and resources.

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Team Members

Jimmy Lin, Principal Investigator, University of Maryland

Funders

Funding Source: IMLS
Award Number: RE-06-13-0064-13
Funding Amount: 299999

Tags

Audience: Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Computing and information science
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Higher Education Programs | Informal | Formal Connections | Professional Development | Conferences | Networks | Professional Development and Workshops