1. Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve
iCAMP
Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve
William E. Moen
Associate Dean for Research
College of Information
University of North Texas

2. Project basics 3-year capacity building project
through
Librarians for 21st Century Grant
Collaboration between
College of Information
Texas Center for Digital Knowledge
Dept. of Library and Information Sciences
UNT Libraries

3. iCAMP goal
Build capacity in UNT’s LIS curriculum to increase the number of appropriately trained information professionals and disciplinary researchers and scholars for digital curation and data management responsibilities.

4. iCAMP objectives
Develop four courses (web-based) in digital duration and data management
Deploy a robust technical infrastructure to support student learning, practical engagement, and training
Implement a virtual teaching environment for students’ active experimentation and discovery learning

6. iCAMP primary groups Graduate students majoring in Information Science
Post-masters information professionals retraining for digital curation jobs
Discipline-specific graduate students who may be responsible for managing data

7. iCAMP outcomes
Increase in students’ preparedness by enhancing practical training
Positive change in discipline-specific graduate students’ knowledge and perceptions
Positive effects on distributed, online LIS education
Improved LIS faculty and UNT librarian’s abilities and attitudes for collaboration in LIS education
Increase students’ preparedness (i.e., knowledge and skills) by enhancing the practical training and engagement with real-world digital curation and data management problems.
Positively change discipline-specific graduate students’ knowledge and perception of the roles of academic libraries as collaborators with scientists and scholars in digital curation, data management, and cyberscholarship.
Positively affect distributed, online LIS education through the Virtual Teaching Environment infrastructure experience.
Improve LIS faculty and UNT librarian’s abilities and attitudes for collaboration in LIS education to serve as a model for such collaboration.

8. iCAMP driving question
In the context of distributed learning and web-based courses, how can LIS education be changed and enhanced to incorporate extensive training and practical experience to result in well-prepared information professionals, scientists, and scholars to take on the challenges and problems of digital curation, data management, and digital preservation?

9. iCAMP competencies Competency (working definition): iCAMP Competency:
A cluster of applicable knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes that can be improved with training and professional development, affect the job, and correlate with performance on the job; Measurable against set standards
iCAMP Competency:
Knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes to carry out a wide range of professional functions in support of digital curation and data management responsibilities.

10. iCAMP competency groups
Communication & Interpersonal
Curating and Preserving Content
Curation Technologies
Environmental Scanning
Management, Planning, and Evaluation
Services
Systems, Models, and Modeling
We have organized the competencies into seven groups.
Each group competency has a definition. For example:
5. Curating and Preserving Content Competency Group
Definition/Statement:This competency addresses the knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes required to understand and carry out a range of activities as defined in the digital information lifecycle model including the creation, acquisition, management, representation, access, organization, transformation, and preservation of digital content.
Then we identify a set of specific competencies. For example.
Curating/Preserving Content Specific Competencies
5.1. Manage both digitized and born digital content
5.2. Manage a variety of content in different mediums, formats, and levels of aggregation.
Then we have a set of Potential Performance Statements [Behavior] that will be linked to student learning outcomes and our assessment methods.

11. iCAMP curriculum development

12. iCAMP courses Digital Curation and Data Management Fundamentals
Tools, Applications, and Infrastructure for Digital Curation
Managing and Preserving Digital Data and Information
Digital Curation and Data Management Seminar

13. iCAMP technology Traditional learning management system Virtual lab
Blackboard learn
Virtual lab
Drupal Islandora Fedora platform
Sandbox
UNT Libraries technology environment

14. iCAMP project staff http://icamp.unt.edu Principal Investigators
William E. Moen, College of Information
Jeonghyun Kim, College of Information
Martin Halbert, UNT Libraries
Professional Staff
Ana Krahmer, UNT Libraries
Mark Phillips, UNT Libraries
Cliff Whitworth, College of Information
Graduate Research Assistants
Joseph Helsing, Computer Science and Engineering
Edward Warga, Library and Information Sciences