About the DCC
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management across the UK's higher education research community.
The Digital Curation Centre provides expert advice and practical help to anyone in UK higher education and research wanting to store, manage, protect and share digital research data.
The DCC provides access to a range of resources including our popular How-to Guides, case studies and online services. Our training programmes aim to equip researchers and data custodians with the skills they need to manage and share date effectively.
We also provide consultancy and support with issues such as policy development and data management planning.
Many research teams are aware of data curation and its numerous benefits, but few have so far managed to address the issues practically and effectively in a working environment.
The Digital Curation Centre is committed to bridging this gap by sharing our knowledge and experience with the higher education sector.
To do this, the DCC has embarked upon a fresh, new, three-year programme of work, which began in March 2010.
Our help isn’t just limited to expert advice. We are a gateway to the technical solutions, curation tools and learning resources that can help data custodians like you to build capacity for digital curation.
The value of digital curation
Such is the potential for digital curation to add value at every stage of the research lifecycle, the practice is fast becoming a requirement of successful funding bids. Discover more about digital curation now.
DCC Charter
Find out more about our vision and our values, read the DCC Charter and Statement of Principles.
Who we've worked with
Find out more about who we've collaborated with during Phase 3.
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DMP Online
DMP Online
DMP Online is the DCC's data management planning tool. In addition to the questions included in the DCC's Checklist for a Data Management Plan, it also contains useful guidance on how to prepare a data management plan and carry it through to execution.
