Dijital Küratörlük: Kavramsal Bir Değerlendirme

Nowadays, “Digitating World” phenomena deeply affect every aspect related to management processes of information. In digitalized world, information professionals are expected to actualize the position of being protectors of information, which is one of their traditional functions, also for permanently protection and reuse of digital information. Applications, which meet this expectation, are practiced via curator processes. Digital curator, which has been ensuring digital data to be protected, accessible, reusable and maintaining its own value, also contains efforts predicting digital world's meaningful data mountains to be sustainable in the future. Here in this study it is aimed to evaluate the concept of digital curator, which purifies the efforts of creating data related to scientific or cultural heritage products from the repetitive processes, based on its relation with basic specifications and digital information management processes. The study is expected to draw attention to the adaptation of digital curator skills to the vocational education processes and contribute to the literature on the subject.