Mainstreaming Digital Curation: An overview of activity in the UK archives and records management profession

This paper seeks to describe recent moves to address the need for digital curation training from within the UK archives and records management profession. It outlines how such training has been included within established archival education programmes, at Aberystwyth University and University College London, as well as discussing moves by the recognised professional body, the Archives and Records Association, to address the issue of providing digital curation training to existing professionals, as part of their continuing professional development (CPD)