Home School	Rutgers University
Class Name	Digital Curation
Class Number	17:610:594
Course Tool	eCollege
Faculty	Michael Lesk
Credits	3 Credit Hours
Class Description	This course is designed to teach the concepts and skills involved in creating and managing a digital repository, library or archive. It is paired with another course entitled "digital preservation"; this course concentrates on building and managing the service while the other one concentrates on preservation. It is modeled on what museum curators do: how to select what should be included, how to deal with the specialized knowledge in different fields, public education and exhibits, and organization.
Seats	2
Delivery	Asynchronous
Start and End Date	9/1/2011 - 12/13/2011
Last Add Day	8/25/2011
Residency Start and End Date	No Residency
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