What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies

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, Peggy Griesinger, Julia Kim, Shira Peltzman, and Vicky Steeves.

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).

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.

Supporting Materials & Data:

The authors welcome and encourage others to extend and reproduce their study, and have made all research materials, including the survey instrument and data, freely available at the following URL: https://osf.io/zndwq/

Thanks & Acknowledgements:

The authors want to thank the NDSR community for their participation and support in conducting our study, without which it would not have been possible.