The Rise of Curation
Courses, Institutes, and Libraries added at Universities Internationally
As of July 2013, a class was added at London's Global University. The class was listed as 'optional' across many disciplines and the only requirement was "the ability to download and install software."
An entire department was added in 2013 at the University of Maine to facility the understanding of digital curation. Classes are offered in metadata, digital preservation, and digital collections and exhibitions. All of the classes appear to be graduate level classes. They also offered internships at museums and historical institutions.
As of January 2014, a student at Johns Hopkins University could obtain a certificate in Digital Curation as a part of their graduate degree. The degree is a specialized graduate program that is designed to "prepare museum professionals to manage the growing volume and variety of digital assets of long-term value that museums are now routinely producing, acquiring, storing and sharing."
Established in 2011, the Digital Scholarship group at Harvard University established themselves to share their "expertise across the global academic community, facilitating new forms and methods of research, and fostering collaborative projects that bring about field-changing developments in scholarship."
At the University of Michigan, the Bentley Historical Library has established a new department within their library to undergo a set of processes to preserve digital content. Their main project was the digitization of 1600 reel-to-reel tapes which were to be processed over period of two years starting in early 2013.
The Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto (DCI) promotes innovative multi-faceted research projects that involves collaboration among faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers both national and internationality. They also have an 'iPres' conference every year that aims to promote a "greater understanding of the issues of digital curation, digital preservation, digital libraries, advance research on digital curation."
At the University of Virginia, library staff have begun a three year project of digitizing ancient volumes from the European exploration of the New World. They are overseen by the Digital Curation Services that is responsible for the creation and preservation of the University.