Digital Curation Centre - Phase Two

DCC&U: An Extended Digital Curation Lifecycle Model

The proliferation of Web, database and social networking technologies has enabled us to produce, publish and exchange digital assets at an enormous rate. This vast amount of information that is either digitized or born-digital needs to be collected, organized and preserved in a way that ensures that our digital assets and the information they carry remain available for future use. Digital curat...

Digital Curation Centre Case Studies and Interviews: WFAU

DMP Online: The Digital Curation Centre's Web-based Tool for Creating, Maintaining and Exporting Data Management Plans

Funding bodies increasingly require researchers to produce Data Management Plans (DMPs). The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has created DMP Online, a web-based tool which draws upon an analysis of funders’ requirements to enable researchers to create and export customisable DMPs, both at the grant application stage and during the project’s lifetime. The International Journal of Digital Curation ...

Digital Curation: The Emergence of a New Discipline

In the mid 1990s UK digital preservation activity concentrated on ensuring the survival of digital material – spurred on by the US report Preserving Digital Information (The Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information, 1996) and developed through JISC-funded activities. Technical developments and a maturing understanding of organisational activity and workflow saw the emphasis move to ensuri...

The Third DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum

A report on the third meeting of the Research Data Management Forum which was held in Manchester, UK on April 30 and May 1, 2009, with an overarching theme entitled " Value and Benefits ". The event was co-sponsored by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Research Information Network (RIN). The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly exc...