The Collaboration and Application of Digital Content Curation in the University Archives

Abstract

Digital content curation refers to the process of concentrating, extracting, insighting, mashing and serializing digital resources based on the theme through a screening mechanism, and presenting high-quality content with a single or combined method after information organization. With the popularity of digital technology, the University Archives has begun to apply digital content curation to present school history archives diversified, immediacy and interactively, thereby expanding the vision of visitors and hoping to be closer to the audience. This article discusses the connotation and implementation stage of digital content curation, and the collaborative relationship among the experts, crowdsourcing and virtual-reality exhibition, and provides the development principles of digital content curation, and the way to choose the digital content curation tools. It also lists several applications, innovative styles of digital content curation, and recommends the implementation process and method for the digital curatorial planning practice, in order to provide a reference for the university archivists to plan the digital content curation in the future.

Keywords

• digital content curation
• university archives
• collaboration