digital curation

Practical Guides to Digital Curation & Digitization

11 October, 2010 | in Publications

Facet Publishing have released Ross Harvey's Digital Curation: A how-to-do-it manual, offering an in-depth, start-to-finish explanation of the digital curation process. They will follow this in December with Anna E Bülow and Jess Ahmon's Preparing Collections for Digitization.

A Digital Divide?

12 May, 2010 | in Blogs

My attention was drawn this week to the PLANETS White Paper, The Digital Divide - Assessing Organisations’ Preparations for Digital Preservation, which summarises the findings of a Market Survey last year of 200 organisations around the world.

Digital Curation Centre User Survey 2009: Highlights

5 January, 2010 | in Blogs

My colleague Angus Whyte has provided the following brief summary of two surveys carried out in Phases 1 and 2 of the Digital Curation Centre, in 2006 and 2009 respectively, as part of our evaluations. In retrospect, we might have done better revising the questions for the second survey rather more than we did; nevertheless I thought it worth while sharing this with you.

Leadership opportunities

8 December, 2009 | in Blogs

Those interested in leadership in Digital and Data Curation should keep an eye on the relevant UK press and lists over the next week or so for anything of interest...

Forgetting to remember

10 August, 2009 | in Blogs

After a Sunday Times article prompted yesterday's piece of whimsy, a Tweet from my standard Twitter search ( (digital OR data) AND (preservation OR curation), since you ask) produced an interesting article by Chris O'Brien, a columnist for MercuryNews.com: "Time to clean up your digital closet". He goes quite nicely through the various ways in which our personal digital content is more at risk than we might think (media degradation, device and format obsolescence, and the sheer anonymity of large quantities of digital stuff).

Curated databases and data curation

5 August, 2009 | in Blogs

I've been working on an article with a colleague, and came across something that's interesting, and that you might be able to help us with. There does appear to be a distinction between the way curation is used in the bio-sciences, and elsewhere. In particular, the term "curated database" tends to mean a manually constructed database that links literature to data, curated by experts who provide authority (eg see the Wikipedia definition of Biocurator).

Digital Curation Conference deadline extended

15 July, 2009 | in Blogs

5th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC09) Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity.

How can Social Bookmarking tools support community resource building?

10 June, 2009 | in Blogs

In the DCC we are trying to work out ways that we can present tools to the community that help you to help us, to help you. The most primitive example of this would be the use of email lists: having identified some issue, we ask a question on a list, and use feedback from list members to develop our response to the issue. But we want to go further; just not sure how.In this post I want to explore two use cases where social bookmarking tools might be helpful, and to seek advice on how to take these ideas forward. The two cases are:

New JISC Research Data Management Programme

2 June, 2009 | in Blogs

I have not been posting for over a month now, due to pressure of work (bid writing, mainly), and its curiously hard to get back into it. There's plenty of things to write about; too many, really; too hard to pick the right one. But now something has arrived that absolutely demands to be blogged: the JISC Research Data Programme, Data Management Infrastructure Call for Projects (JISC 07/09) has been released (closing data 6 August 2009, Community Briefing 6 July 2009)!

5th International Digital Curation Conference: Call for Papers

15 April, 2009 | in Blogs

The Call for Papers for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference has just been published. With the title "Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity", the conference will be held in London from 2-4 December, 2009. I believe this is THE conference for papers on advances in digital and data curation! The text of the call follows:

DMP Online

The beta version of the DMP Online tool launched in March 2010 and was showcased at the JISC Conference in April. The DCC’s data management planning tool draws on funders’ data-related requirements to help researchers create, develop and export customisable data management plans at the grant application stage and throughout the project’s lifetime.

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