Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of professional competency in current digital curation literature through the lens of competency theories in management science and organizational studies. This paper also aims to provide recommendations to articulate and expand professional competencies in future digital curation research and professional education. Design/methodology/approach The outcomes presented in this paper are based on a multi-disciplinary literature review and a qualitative content analysis. The literature review explores theoretical foundations of professional competency in management science and organizational studies and how the concept of professional competency is used in digital curation literature. The content analysis scrutinizes 16 digital curation publications that have discussed professional competency, with an in-depth examination of seven empirical studies in these publications. Findings The findings include: the concept of professional competency is inconsistently used in digital curation literature, the digital curation literature exhibits disparate coverage of different types of professional competencies, and the digital curation empirical studies often narrowly operationalize the concept of professional competency but the empirical studies using multiple or in-depth qualitative methods yield more comprehensive findings reflecting a broader scope of the concept. Originality/value Although past research focused on the competencies required for digital curation, there is no research scrutinizing the conceptual construct of professional competency in the digital curation literature. This paper will be of value to digital curation researchers and educators to better determine the competencies needed for digital curators as an emerging profession.

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数字策展专业能力的回顾：理论与当前实践

目的本文的目的是通过管理科学和组织研究中的胜任力理论来检验当前数字策展文献中的职业胜任力概念。本文还旨在提供建议，以阐明和扩展未来数字策展研究和专业教育中的专业能力。设计/方法论/方法本文提出的结果基于多学科文献综述和定性内容分析。文献综述探讨了管理科学和组织研究中专业能力的理论基础，以及如何在数字策展文献中使用专业能力的概念。内容分析仔细审查了16篇讨论专业能力的数字策展出版物，并深入研究了这些出版物中的七项实证研究。研究结果包括：数字策展文献中不一致地使用了专业能力的概念，数字策展文献对不同类型的专业能力的显示各不相同，数字策展实证研究通常狭义地运用了职业能力的概念，但实证研究使用多种或深入的定性方法可获得更全面的发现，反映出该概念的范围更广。原创性/价值尽管过去的研究集中在数字策展所需的能力上，但没有研究仔细研究数字策展文献中的专业能力的概念结构。