How can the Digital Curation Centre help You?
The Digital Curation Centre is the UK’s leading hub of expertise in curating digital research data. Anyone who can benefit from storing, managing and protecting digital data can turn to the DCC for expert advice and practical help. Effective data management throughout the research lifecycle will ensure that data will continue to work for you as productively as the research that produced them.
See our FAQs on the help we provide to:-
- Data Creators - researchers and principal investigators
- Data Managers and research liaison staff embedded at research group or department level
- Data Librarians, Computing & IT Service Managers
- Data Scientists and Library or Informatics Researchers
- Senior Research Managers
- Funding Bodies, National Data Centres, Learned Societies & Professional Bodies
- Consultants
What is Digital Curation?
Digital curation involves organising and preserving digital information so that it may be available for future use. Effectively curated research data can be better shared among the wider research community, enhancing the long-term value of your work.
- Digital Curation: an Overview
- Digital Preservation and Archiving
- Planning for Digital Preservation
- Glossary of Curation Terms
- State of the Art - Curation of Research Data
Coming Soon
NEW BOOK: Managing Research Data
This collection of papers by leading international figures in the field of research data management will be published in the Autumn of 2011. By reference to current and emerging practices, it will provide an introduction to the key issues facing the higher education and information management communities. Essential reading for information professionals, researchers and policy makers, Managing Research Data defines the culture for effective research data management and offers practical guidance on the strategies and tools to be adopted.