University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science)

Working in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), a funding body in the United Kingdom for information technology, and its funded entities, the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) will be the US lead for the “Closing the Digital Curation Gap” project. This partnership will establish and support a network of digital curation practitioners, researchers, and educators through face-to-face meetings, web-based communication, and other communication tools. It will establish a baseline of digital curation practice and knowledge, especially for small to medium-sized cultural heritage institutions in the US and UK, through surveys, interviews and case studies, and will develop a schema for ongoing development of digital curation frameworks, guidance, and best practices, and identification and promotion of the roles that various organizations can play. Because these activities are of strategic importance to the library and archives fields, the project will be carried out as a cooperative agreement between UNC and IMLS.