Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication and teamwork skills to liaise with relevant personnel
critical thinking skills to:
apply analysis and description tools to a wide range of resources of varying complexity
distinguish significant information from minor references
initiative and enterprise skills to create metadata that anticipates and accommodates access
literacy skills to:
interpret licensing agreements
construct metadata
numeracy skills to work with numerical features of systems
problem-solving skills to authenticate resources
self-management skills to:
prioritise work tasks and meet deadlines
follow workplace procedures
technology skills to:
convert formats and files
create digital objects and derivatives
scan resources to preserve their integrity
use repository and digital collection systems.
Required knowledge
access and preservation standards for digitisation
copyright, moral rights, digital rights management and intellectual property issues and legislation that impact on digital repositories
different digital file formats
digital preservation techniques
information management principles for description and access
licensing agreements covering digital resources
metadata standards and systems used in Australian institutions, such as:
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR)
Australian Government Location Service (AGLS)
Dublin Core
Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) and MARC21 standard
organisational procedures regarding digital repositories.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Types may include: | discipline, such as: knowledge management data management repository institutional, such as: open access digital systems, such as: content management platforms. |
Procedures may relate to: | access authentication authorities copyright donations description editing industry-current system procedures intellectual property licensing agreements moral rights and intellectual property issues permissions privacy schemas standards technical issues. |
Risksmay relate to: | access copyright infringement handling resources for digitisation hazardous substances moral rights preservation privacy reproduction use. |
Resourcesmay include: | audio audiovisual bibliographic references (metadata only) books, sections and chapters conference and workshop papers culturally sensitive materials datasets digital images examination papers or tests full text articles journal articles learning objects multimedia and audiovisual materials patents photographs software theses and dissertations unpublished reports and working papers. |
Relevant personnelmay include: | artists authors copyright owners donors members of the public musicians photographers publishers researchers rights holders teachers work colleagues. |
Adding resources may relate to: | conversion of formats file conversion file formats, such as: audio documents, maps and books film and video photographs, negatives and slides file naming file optimisation file size interpolation metadata standards mode and bit depth output size permissions preservation resolution scanning. |
Software applications and equipmentmay include: | backup servers cameras computers database servers digital library management systems scanners. |
Access and integritymay relate to: | creating surrogates files, such as: format migration refreshment storage ingestion restrictions, such as: authentication contractual copyright cultural embargoes licensing. |
Descriptive, technical and administrative metadatamay relate to: | access coding standards, such as: Lightweight Information Describing Object (LIDO) MARC Metadata Encoding and Transmission Specification (METS) Metadata Object Description Scheme (MODS) eXtensible markup language (XML) content standards, such as: ontologies Resource Description and Access (RDA) taxonomies thesauruses element sets, such as: Australian Government Location Service (AGLS) Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) Dublin Core Vocational Educational and Training Metadata (Vetadata) preservation metadata schemas, such as Preservation Metadata Maintenance Activity (PREMIS) rights management. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist