DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks: A Standards Path through the Curation Lifecycle

The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks Project aims to offer domain-specific advice on standards relevant to digital preservation and curation, to help curators identify which standards they should be using and where they can be appropriately implemented, to ensure authoritative digital material. The Project uses the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model and Web 2.0 technology, to present standards frameworks visually for a number of disciplines. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has worked with different organisations to present searchable frameworks of standards, for a number of domains. They include digital repositories, records management and the archives sector. 1 This paper is based on the paper given by the author at the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, December 2008; received July 2008, published October 2009. The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. ISSN: 1746-8256 The IJDC is published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre. DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks 61