Digital Archives Management (Gr. Cert.) (15 credits)
Offered by: Information Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Program credit weight: 15
Program Description
This program is intended to prepare students to work in the area of digital archives. The graduate courses in the program will focus on principles of organization of information, practices in archival studies, and strategies for digital curation and enterprise content management. This in an entry-level, graduate program that may lead to another graduate certificate or to the M.I.St. program, however, none of the courses taken in the graduate certificate can be credited towards the M.I.St. program once a graduate certificate has been completed.
Required Courses (6 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INFS 607 | Organization of Information. | 3 |
Organization of Information. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Introduction to the theory, principles, standards, andmethods of information organization. Students learnto provide intellectual and physical access toinformation. Topics include principles of informationrepresentation, tools for information access,metadata, controlled vocabulary. | ||
| INFS 649 | Digital Curation. | 3 |
Digital Curation. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The life-cycle and value-added management of digital content for future use, re-use and access. Addresses strategies, principles, and practices of digital preservation, digital curation, digital collection management, institutional repositories, trusted digital repositories, metadata, and file formats at archives, libraries, museums, data centers, and other cultural heritage institutions. | ||
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
chosen from the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INFS 609 | Metadata and Access. | 3 |
Metadata and Access. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Archival descriptive tools in metadata-based accesssystems. Metadata schemas (MARC, Dublin Coreand EAD), markup languages (SGML, HTML, andXML), DTD, vocabulary control, and metadatamanagement issues. | ||
| INFS 633 | Digital Media. | 3 |
Digital Media. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Foundational scientific concepts and basictechniques of digital media production andmanipulation and their relevance in galleries,libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM). Toolsand techniques for creating and handling digitalmedia. Digitizing audio, image, video, and textmaterials, and using various software packagesfor manipulating and preserving digital sound,images, and video. | ||
| INFS 641 | Archival Description and Access. | 3 |
Archival Description and Access. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Advanced theory and practice of archival appraisal,arrangement, description, and the creation of accesstools to archival records and collections, including theselection and application of appropriate archivaldescriptive standards, metadata schemes,management tools, and outreach programs includingthe creation and dissemination of finding aids. | ||
| INFS 642 | Preservation Management. | 3 |
Preservation Management. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Principles and practices for intellectual and physicalpreservation of historical and cultural heritagematerials in all forms to extend their durability andassure continued accessibility, through selection,conservation, migration, digitization, preservationstrategies, preservation management and ongoingevaluation. | ||
| INFS 645 | Archival Principles and Practice. | 3 |
Archival Principles and Practice. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Fundamental principles and practices of archivalstudies, including records life cycle, history ofarchives, cultural memory, authentic recordkeepingsystems, acquisition, appraisal, arrangement,description, preservation, reference and access,social and cultural systems, financial and legalsystems, ethics, advocacy programs, fund raising,legal issues, archives-related professions, researchmethodology and implementation. | ||
| INFS 657 | Database Design and Development. | 3 |
Database Design and Development. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Theoretical and applied principles of relational database design. Includes relational theory, conceptual design, database normalization, relational database management systems, SQL queries and database management. | ||
| INFS 660 | Records Management. | 3 |
Records Management. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Management of an organization’s content in digital forms that relate to the organization’s operational processes for compliance, governance and decision-making purposes. Addresses principles, strategies, methods and tools used in the lifecycle management of the content, including capture, workflow, classification, metadata, collaboration, preservation, and delivery. | ||