What makes a digital steward: A competency profile based on the National Digital Stewardship Residencies

Digital stewardship is a rapidly maturing field within library and information science. This domain engages in the active and long-term management of digital objects towards their preservation for and unencumbered access by future generations. Although this field is growing quickly, it lacks a compentancy profile for practioners that is commonplace in LIS (example: the American Library Association's Core Compentencies of Librarianship).

This study sought to fill that gap by creating a profile of the skills, responsibilities, and knowledge areas that define competency in digital stewardship, based on three key datasets: 1) literature in the field through a literature review (to define the scope of the profile), 2) NDSR project descriptions, qualitatively analyzed to get a baseline understanding of expected competencies 3) the results of a survey given to current and past NDSR residents, quantitively evaluated to illustrate competencies’ importance to professional success.

数字监护作为图书馆与信息科学领域中的一门新兴成熟学科，正日益受到广泛关注。该领域致力于对数字资源进行主动且长期的维护管理，旨在确保其得以长久保存，并使后代能够不受阻碍地获取。尽管这一领域发展迅速，但在图书馆与信息科学（如美国图书馆协会的图书馆员核心能力）中普遍存在的从业者能力素质模型，在数字监护领域却尚付阙如。本研究旨在填补这一空白，通过构建数字监护领域能力素质模型，涵盖了技能、职责以及知识领域的界定，该模型基于以下三个关键数据集：1）通过文献综述对该领域的文献进行梳理，以确定模型的范畴；2）对NDSR项目描述进行定性分析，以获取对预期能力的基准理解；3）对当前和过往NDSR居民进行的问卷调查结果进行定量评估，以展示能力对职业成功的重要性。