“When I think about objects from my lifetime being in museums, besides feeling old, I think about the first generation iPod on display at the London Science Museum or pieces of steel from the World Trade Center at museums and memorials around the country. What I didn’t think about, however, were the mp3 music files […]
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“I was very happy with the internship experience….I felt that I was able to apply many of the things I learned in my classes: thinking about what is being curated and what voices and perspectives are (or are not) being shared, trying out and reporting on different software, choosing the appropriate metadata, and recording and […]
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“I began the Digital Curation certificate with library and archives work experience, most of it with paper collections, and an interest in web archiving. The program is structured in a logical, efficient way that delivers a comprehensive look at the world of digital objects. I gained knowledge of the dilemmas and possibilities of digital collections, and […]
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“As someone tasked with managing digital records and an archive at my place of work, it quickly became clear that what I’d learned for my MLS 15 years ago needed updating. The Digital Curation certificate program has been everything I needed—it has pushed me intellectually and philosophically, allowed me to use my actual workplace as […]
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