Program Overview

Digital Curation and Data Management Certificate

Program Type

Graduate Academic Certificate

Program Type

• Graduate Academic Certificate

Format

• Online

Estimated Time to Complete

• 1 year

Credit Hours

• 12

Program Description

The Digital Curation and Data Management Graduate Academic Certificate (GAC) prepares students and practicing information professionals with the competencies (i.e., knowledge, skills, and abilities) for the emerging digital curation and data management workforce. It also prepares students to qualify for, and excel in the evolving opportunities in digital curation and data management.

Why Earn a Digital Curation and Data Management Certificate?

UNT's graduate academic certificate in digital curation and data management provides the conceptual foundation and application experiences to develop a defined set of competencies needed to perform essential job functions involving management, curation, preservation, and stewardship of digital data and information. The courses provide students with hands-on experiences with technologies and applications in a virtual lab setting.

Digital Curation and Data Management Certificate Courses

• Digital Curation Fundamentals (3 hrs)
  • Introduces fundamental concepts, practices, procedures, processes, and vocabulary for the entire curation lifecycle of digital materials and data, from creation through appraisal, ingest, and storage, to access and reuse.
  • Covers history and background; concepts and principles; community standards and practices; challenges and issues; and basic techniques for curating and managing digital materials and data.
• Preservation Planning and Implementation for Digital Curation (3 hrs)
  • Provides students an opportunity to develop a plan for preservation throughout the curation lifecycle of digital materials and data.
  • Students apply digital curation concepts and models to understand preservation planning processes and use various tools and applications to implement the plan on digital materials and data.
• Digital Curation Tools and Applications (3 hrs)
  • Covers the technical infrastructure, including systems and services, necessary for digital curation.
  • Focuses on techniques, tools and applications for curating digital materials and data.
  • Topics covered include creating and executing an action plan for archiving digital materials and data, deciding what to store, consolidating multiple file versions, and creating metadata.
  • Explores various digital repositories and their underlying platforms.
• Introduction to Digital Libraries (3 hrs)
  • Introduction to conceptual, practical and technical issues for developing and managing digital libraries.
  • Theoretical foundations, technical infrastructures, digital objects (including born-digital objects and digitized objects), digital collection, organization and representation of information, user and service evaluation, and social, cultural and policy issues are discussed.