O contributo do profissional da informação na curadoria digital

contribution of the information professional in digital curation

Abstract

The information professional is gaining more and more space in the current information society. Information and communication technologies appear to facilitate the performance of work in the digital environment. With the increasing amount of information, either digitized or born digital, the care of digital objects has become urgent. Digital curation appears as an alternative in the care of digital objects, ensuring that they have a longer life and can be used. It is believed that activities related to digital curation have required constant updates and other competencies for the information professional. Therefore, we intend to know: what are the information professional's practices that contribute to digital curatorship? General Objective: To identify which types of information professionals perform activities related to digital curatorship. Specific objectives: to highlight the literatures that deal with the information professional in digital curatorship; to verify the necessary competences for the information professional to act as digital curator; to specify the similar and different aspects in the typologies of the information professional. Results: Most digital curators are librarian, archivist or museologist professionals, with master's degrees in the areas of librarianship, records management, archivists or in information science. Few specialize or have master's degrees in digital curation or data curation. Some of the activities that the digital curator performs include the following services: creating metadata; accessing, collecting and manipulating content; discarding; maintaining resources; developing policies and managing data plans and procedures for digital content. Conclusion: Digital curation is important to ensure the long life and integrity of the digital object, so organizations adapt to their reality, life cycle models to work with these digital objects. The specialized training for digital curators is directly linked to the areas of Librarianship and Information Science. This research highlights the type of information professional: the librarian, who most performs activities related to digital curation.