Welcome!

Welcome to Introduction to Digital Curation. We are going to get started with a short exercise to get you familiar with some of the topics we will be talking about this semester and to illustrate some of the skills we will develop together.

This assignment is not graded. The purpose is to give you a little taste of what we will be learning about this semester in Introduction to Digital Curation.

Please download this file and answer any or all of the following if you can. Do not worry if you can't, this is stuff we will be learning about over the next few months.

• What is the format of the file?
• What does the file contain?
• How would you use the file?
• Where did the file come from?
• Who created the information in the file?
• Does it have a URL?