What

• what:
  • questions and answers
    • Curation questions
      • Where does the stuff come from? How will be reused and by whom? What are their requirements?
      • What is the importance of the asset from the point of view of the institution?
      • Do you need to provide guidance or support, to the depositor or to the user?
      • What are the responsibilities? Who is the 'collection owner'? Who decides how it is catalogued, etc.?
      • Are there any rights issues associated with the content itself (eg privacy) or in the transfer (eg copyright)
    • Technical questions
      • What do you need to know - how much detail?
      • What have you got: complexity/diversity, volume/growth

• • • Once we know who we need to communicate with we then can start looking at what we've got ... We can describe the assets that we have.
    • What have you got - complexity, volume
    • what do you need to do?
    • Assess your digital collections
    • Identify risks and challenges
    • Identify solutions
  • further information
    • characterisation
    • case studies
    • content audit etc