This is the new MA offered by the Centre of eResearch and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s.
The Centre for e-Research (CeRch) in collaboration with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is proposing to establish an MA in Digital Asset Management (MADAM). The goal of MADAM is to address what is seen as a major gap in education and training at postgraduate level in an increasingly important area of library, archival and curatorial activity, namely the management of digital resources.
Within the cultural heritage sector, there has been an increasing amount of activity over several years in the creation of digital resources, either by creating digital facsimiles of existing cultural artifacts, or by creating new (‘born digital’) resources. In government, both local and central, and in commerce and industry, more and more of the information created in the normal course of activity is in electronic form, whether as web publications, email, or documents in word-processed, spreadsheet or PDF formats.
There are important considerations of curatorial and technical standards that arise throughout the ‘digital resource life-cycle’, from creation through management and dissemination to long-term preservation. These considerations and this life-cycle are the core subject matter of the proposed new MA programme in Digital Asset Management.
The new programme will be able to take advantage of activities and areas of expertise in which King’s College London has international standing, and will offer imaginative intellectual and practical training in areas that are of major and growing importance in contemporary society. The intention is to develop a programme that is strongly inter-disciplinary. At the outset, the focus will be on resources across the humanities disciplines but over time the course will be expanded to cover the social sciences, medicine and the biomedical sciences.
Further details about the programme and how to register will be available shortly. To express an interest in the course and for an outline of the core module, please email Lydia.horstman@kcl.ac.uk
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