Digital Curation News

A new phase, a new perspective, a new Director

As the DCC begins its third phase today, we are delighted to announce the appointment of our new Director, Kevin Ashley, who will succeed Chris Rusbridge upon his retirement in April 2010.

The Digital Curation Centre: A new phase, a new perspective

On 1st March 2010 the Digital Curation Centre embarks on its third phase of evolution, following six years of development and consolidation.

Ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting

The Ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) is scheduled to be held 13-16 September 2010 at the City Hall in Cardiff. Workshops have been a successful feature of previous AHM programmes, and proposals for workshops are now invited. Workshop sessions focus on a particular topic and are organised by individuals to bring together a number of presenters in a panel or mini-symposium format. These sessions will be scheduled in parallel with other conference sessions, but with the expectation that individuals will not move between sessions.
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Results of Digital Preservation Costs Survey Now Available

The findings from the Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (“KRDS2) survey of digital preservation cost information are now available on the KRDS2 project webpage.
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Results of Digital Preservation Costs Survey Now Available

The findings from the Keeping Research Data Safe 2 ("KRDS2) survey of digital preservation cost information are now available on the KRDS2 project webpage. One of the core aims of the KRDS2 project was to identify potential sources of cost information for preservation of digital research data and to conduct a survey of them.
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Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines

Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. The complete results of this work can be found at the Future of Scholarly Communication's project website.
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The DCC is funded by

Joint Information Systems Committee