Briefing Papers
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These concise overviews are designed to help improve your basic understanding of key curation issues, and provide a high-level introduction to a given topic; they may also be used to help raise awareness among senior management and decision-makers.
The following briefing papers are available:
- Web 2.0 for Researchers and Curators
27 April 2009 | Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow - Interoperability
4 February 2009 | Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow - Database Archiving
2 February 2009 | Heiko Müller, University of Edinburgh - Data Quality and Accreditation
1 October 2008 | Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow - Annotation
2 September 2008 | Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow - Genre Classification
6 July 2008 | Daisy Abbott and Yunhyong Kim, University of Glasgow - What is Digital Curation?
2 April 2008 | Daisy Abbott, University of Glasgow - Appraisal and Selection
4 March 2008 | Ross Harvey, Charles Sturt University - Building Trust Through Repository Self-Assessment
24 October 2007 | Andrew McHugh, University of Glasgow - Digital Preservation: Continued Access to Authentic Digital Assets
20 November 2006 | Maureen Pennock, University of Bath - Persistent Identifiers
17 October 2006 | Joy Davidson, University of Glasgow - Using OAIS for Curation
3 October 2006 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh - Curating e-Science Data
24 August 2006 | Maureen Pennock, University of Bath - Data Protection
30 July 2006 | Margaret McGinley, University of Edinburgh - Curating Geospatial Data
4 April 2006 | Guy McGarva, University of Edinburgh - Digital Repositories
4 April 2006 | Najla Semple, University of Edinburgh - Curating E-mails
30 March 2006 | Maureen Pennock, University of Bath - Freedom of Information Act
4 November 2004 | Margaret McGinley, University of Edinburgh
Read our FAQ on how the Freedom of Information Legislation might affect you.
Further briefing papers will be published over the course of the DCC project. For more in-depth information on digital curation issues, please see our DCC Digital Curation Manual.
