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An Analysis on Digital Curation Process in Special Libraries

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2017, 34(4), pp.247~271
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2017.34.4.247
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : December 6, 2017
  • Accepted : December 21, 2017
  • Published : December 30, 2017

Seo, Eun-Gyoung 1

1한성대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Digital curation which maintains digital information over time and adds value becomes, nowadays, one of the important business process in the special libraries. This study is to investigate the business practice level of the digital curation in the special libraries and the librarians’ perception on the importancy of digital curation. In results, it is found that most librarian, in general, think that the level of digital curation practice in the special libraries is insufficiency. Also, the study finds that the librarians of special libraries have difficulties in terms of the lack of willingness and funding problems as well as the lack of long-term policies and suitable business procedures; they only focus the cycle of information organization-information storage-information use among the 8 processes of digital curation; they need to recognize the importance of digital preservation as one of the essential process of digital curation and make effort to extend technological capacity of digital preservation.

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