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 # 2016-NDSR-CompetencyProfile-Paper
-A paper by Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Peggy Griesinger, Julia Kim, and Vicky Steeves on the National Digital Stewardship Residency program.
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+### Summary:
+This project contains the LaTex files for building the paper "What makes a digital steward?:
+ A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies" by [Karl-Rainer Blumenthal](http://landscapelibrarian.com/), [Peggy Griesinger](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-griesinger-413a2173), [Julia Kim](https://twitter.com/jy_kim29), [Shira Peltzman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shira-peltzman-82389114), and [Vicky Steeves](www.victoriaisteeves.com).
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+### Introduction:
+Digital stewardship is a rapidly maturing field within library and information science. This domain engages in the active and long-term management of digital objects towards their preservation for and unencumbered access by future generations. Although this field is growing quickly, it lacks a compentancy profile for practioners that is commonplace in LIS (example: the American Library Association's [Core Compentencies of Librarianship](http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/sites/ala.org.educationcareers/files/content/careers/corecomp/corecompetences/finalcorecompstat09.pdf)). 
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+This study sought to fill that gap by creating a profile of the skills, responsibilities, and knowledge areas that define competency in digital stewardship, based on three key datasets: 1) literature in the field through a literature review (to define the scope of the profile), 2) NDSR project descriptions, qualitatively analyzed to get a baseline understanding of expected competencies 3) the results of a survey given to current and past NDSR residents, quantitively evaluated to illustrate competencies’ importance to professional success.