A study of digital curator competences: Asurvey of experts

International Information and Library Review

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 149-156

  Madrid, Melody M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b National Library of the Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Competences; Delphi method; Digital curation; Digital curators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889601015     PISSN: 10572317     EISSN: 10959297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iilr.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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