Smithsonian Digital Content Types

Abstract

Digital content is all the digital “stuff” created, collected, drafted, produced, and aggregated as part of SI’s mission-oriented activities. Deploying our digital content requires a management strategy that understands what content has institutional value and a digital ecosystem of tools that define pathways for these assets to make this value usable and accessible throughout the lifecycle. The goal of the project was to build a high-level view of the digital landscape across SI. Six overarching digital content types are defined and given subtypes in the report, in addition to a list of systems of support, themes gathered from over 100 staff interviews, and a list of roles and ownership status'.