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We provide access to digital curation expertise and best practice for the creation, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and re-use over time. A key objective for our project is the creation and maintenance of a world-class DCC Digital Curation Manual. This DCC Digital Curation Manual is a community-driven resource — from the selection of instalment topics through to authorship and peer review.
Individual instalments authored by leading experts in the field of digital curation will cover a range of issues relating to digital curation. The Digital Curation Manual is designed to assist data creators, curators and re-users to better understand the challenges they face and the roles they play in creating, managing and preserving their digital information over time. Each instalment will place the topic in the context of digital curation by providing an introduction to the subject, an explanation of terminology used, suggestions for best practice and by providing real-life examples of the topic in action. To ensure that the Digital Curation Manual is as current as possible, authors will be required to review and update their individual instalments on an annual basis reflecting any major developments.
To ensure that the highest possible quality is achieved, we have assembled a peer review panel consisting of international experts in the field of digital curation to review each instalment that is produced. The Digital Curation Manual is edited by our very own Michael Day (UKOLN) and Seamus Ross (HATII).
Although over 45 instalments have been commissioned so far, we are open to suggestions for future instalments, so if you can think of any then please, let us know!
Date Published: 25 July 2005 | Last Modified: 17 August 2006 | Submit Feedback | web-editor@dcc.ac.uk
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