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Building a Community

of Digital Curation Educators

Jess Farrell, Educopia Institute

Community Facilitator

Alex Chassanoff, NC Central University

Assistant Professor

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Today’s Agenda

Who is an educator?
Introductions
Problem areas - Overview

Problem areas - Discussion/addition
Break out into problem area-focused groups for guided activity
Report back

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Who is an educator?

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Who is an educator?

Instructors in higher education programs

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Who is an educator?

Instructors in higher education programs
Instructors in continuing education programs

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Who is an educator?

Instructors in higher education programs
Instructors in continuing education programs
Instructors or facilitators who administer workshops at conferences

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Who is an educator?

Instructors in higher education programs
Instructors in continuing education programs
Instructors or facilitators who administer workshops at conferences
Managers who train their employees or peers

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Who is an educator?

Instructors in higher education programs
Instructors in continuing education programs
Instructors or facilitators who administer workshops at conferences
Managers who train their employees or peers
GLAM workers who teach by sharing knowledge every day in informal ways

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Who is an educator?

MLIS instructors

Continuing education instructors

Workshop facilitators & presenters

Managers & other trainers

All collaborative GLAM workers, in small ways every day

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Introductions

Name
Preferred pronouns
What “category/ies” of educator are you or have you been recently?

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Problem areas

Framing: we are all educators. Today’s session will help us define how, as a community, we can use education as a tool to overcome some of the challenges to the work we do.

We’re going to take a look at some of the broad problem areas that I’m sure you’ll be familiar with if you’ve been working as a practitioner, and probably that you’ve heard about if you’re an educator or facilitator working with communities of practitioners. They aren’t unknown, but they also haven’t been adequately addressed and I think there’s a lot of fruitful work we can do in these areas.

These problem areas were identified through listening to BCC membership and helping them implement workflows. OSSArcFlow project helped inform it. That’s why these projects are so important - helps the community mobilize toward solutions to broad professional problems identified.

We’ll have a short 5 mins discussion on each identified area. Please let me know if these are relevant and relatable, and things worth addressing. If they aren’t, we can throw them out! If we want to address a different topic, we will have time at the end of the discussion to bring those in. After that, we will move into breakout groups to dig deeper into these issues and find some solutions.

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Scaling up institutional capacity

Institutions are facing difficulties in implementing systematic workflows to take care of their born-digital materials.

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Research and development is needed to advance practice

Current archival processing standards need to be modified/updated/altered to fit the needs of born-digital archives and new/emerging types of content streams.

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Resources and collective advocacy

Digital archivists report having limited budgets, time, expertise, mentorship; unrealistic job descriptions, and lack of skills walking into jobs from LIS programs; and individual advocacy has been ineffective in addressing these problems.

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Should we add any breakout groups/problem areas to this list?

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Breakout groups

Move to the table discussing the problem area you’d like to explore further.

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What are the central challenges with this problem?
Identify the top 1-3 challenges.
What are some specific educational deliverables that a working group could develop to address these 1-3 challenges?
How else could the BCC community support these deliverables or help address the challenges?

Imagine you’ve just formed a working group that will address your problem area. What challenges in this area will you prioritize and what deliverables will you have?

Jess will time this and make sure that we are moving on at the right pace.

Supplies needed: sticky notes, colored stickers, notepads and pens OR collaborative google notes docs?

At the end you will be reporting back on the top 3 challenges you identify to overcoming your group’s problem area, and your group’s deliverable and BCC support ideas.

What are the central challenges with this problem?

Brainstorm quick ideas via sticky notes (2 mins)
Discuss what’s on the table and add/refine (8 mins)

Identify the top 3 challenges.

Discuss (4 mins)
Vote with stickers (1mins)

What are some specific educational deliverables that a working group could develop to address these 3 challenges? (20 mins)

Assign a notetaker or decide to collaboratively take notes.
Challenge 1 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 2 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 3 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Refine your deliverables for each challenge in the problem area. 5 mins

How else could the BCC community support these deliverables or help address the challenges? (10 mins)

For example, a roundtable or special BUF session, etc.
Brainstorm silently w/sticky notes - 1 min
Discuss and continue to add ideas - 8 min
Decide what you want to bring to the report-back - 1 min

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PROBLEM: Scaling up institutional capacity

EXAMPLE

What are the top 1-3 challenges in scaling up institutional capacity?

Too few staff members with appropriate skills

What could the community do to address these challenges?

Develop shareable documentation and templates for collecting (inventories, baseline IT requirements)
Develop training materials for using APIs to hand off metadata
Host a webinar on the topic

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What are the central challenges with this problem?

Brainstorm quick ideas (individually) via sticky notes (2 mins)
Discuss what’s on the table and add/refine (8 mins)

Identify the top 1-3 challenges.

Discuss (4 mins)
Vote with stickers - you get 3 votes (1min)

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What are some specific educational deliverables that a working group could develop to address these 1-3 challenges? (20 mins)

Assign a notetaker or decide to collaboratively take notes.
Challenge 1 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 2 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 3 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Refine your deliverables for each challenge in the problem area. 5 mins

Imagine you’ve just formed a working group that will address your problem area. What challenges in this area will you prioritize and what deliverables will you have?

Jess will time this and make sure that we are moving on at the right pace.

Supplies needed: sticky notes, colored stickers, notepads and pens OR collaborative google notes docs?

At the end you will be reporting back on the top 3 challenges you identify to overcoming your group’s problem area, and your group’s deliverable and BCC support ideas.

What are some specific educational deliverables that a working group could develop to address these 3 challenges? Finish by 10:25

Assign a notetaker or decide to collaboratively take notes.
Challenge 1 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 2 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Challenge 3 - brainstorming, 5 mins
Refine your deliverables for each challenge in the problem area. 5 mins

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What types of educational communities could create this documentation, and who will benefit?

For each section of the educator communities pyramid, place stickies for deliverables that each type of educator could work on - 5 min
Pick up to 3 deliverables to call out in your report-back and answer the question “Who will benefit?” for these - 5 min

In your report-out, share up to 3 deliverables and note possible communities & collaboration points for creating them, and who is likely to benefit.

What types of educational communities could create this documentation? Who will benefit?

IF jess doesn’t have time to prepopulate this: Draw a large educators’ pyramid on the flipchart paper (taking up as much of the page as possible), split it into 5 sections, and label each section (see slide for reference).
Put deliverable stickies up on different parts of the educators pyramid. Where the deliverable relates to more than one group, duplicate the idea and put it in both places. You might want to mark it with a star or colored sticker to note that it’s a collaboration point. (5 mins)
Pick up to 3 deliverables to call out specifically in your report back and answer the question “Who will benefit?” for those three deliverables. (5 mins)
In your report-out, share up to 3 deliverables and note possible collaboration points for creating them, and who is likely to benefit from the deliverable.

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Who is an educator?

MLIS instructors

Continuing education instructors

Workshop facilitators & presenters

Managers & other trainers

All collaborative GLAM workers, in small ways every day

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Breakout group reports

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Thank you!

Jess Farrell, Educopia Institute

Community Facilitator

jess.farrell@educopia.org

Alex Chassanoff, NC Central University

Assistant Professor

amchassanoff@gmail.com