With apologies for any cross posting. Kate Fernie
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to take part in a survey on the training needs
of staff in the field of digital preservation and digital curation within
Europe and internationally which Goettingen State and University Library,
Germany, is carrying out on behalf of "Digital Curator Vocational Education
Europe" (DigCurV).
DigCurV is a project funded by the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci
programme and brings together organisations from Europe, Canada and the USA.
The UK is represented by HATII and by MDR Partners.
DigCurV (www.digcur-education.org <http://www.digcur-education.org/> ) aims
to address the availability of vocational training and education in digital
preservation and curation by developing a curriculum and an international
framework for training, as a response to the growing demand for staff with
the skills and competences needed for the long-term management of digital
collections in cultural institutions. We are currently carrying out research
to survey and analyse both the existing training opportunities and training
needs in the sector to inform the development of the curriculum.
We are inviting managers, curators and experts in digital preservation to
take part in this survey of training needs. Your input will really help
inform the curriculum framework and we greatly appreciate your time in
assisting with this research.
The survey is online at
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/544426/DigCurV-Survey-on-Training-Needs and
will take you about 15 minutes to complete.
We would be grateful for your response by 7th August.
Yours sincerely,
Claudia Engelhardt and
Stefan Strathmann
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact:
Claudia Engelhardt or Stefan Strathmann
Research and Development Department (RDD)
Goettingen State and University Library
Georg August Universitaet Goettingen
Germany
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If you have questions about the project, please contact:
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The DigCurV training needs survey is anonymous. Respondents will not be
identified in the results, which will only used for the purpose of the
survey or future research on digital preservation-training related topics;
it will be treated as confidential according to the German Federal Data
Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz/BDSG).
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