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Standards Watch Papers

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Our standards watch papers offer a concise overview of existing and emerging formal and de facto standards that can be beneficial for the long-term curation and preservation of digital materials.

The following standards watch papers are currently available:

The following standards watch papers are available:

Standards Watch 7: Information Security Management: Using BS 10012:2009 to Comply with the Data Protection Act (1998)
14 October 2009 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh
RSP Web Advisory Document: PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
25 March 2009 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh
Standards Watch 6: Information Security Management: The ISO 27000 (ISO 27K) Series
20 March 2009 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh
Standards Watch 5: Workflow Standards for e-Science
7 March 2008 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh
Standards Watch 4: ISO 15489: Information and Documentation - Records Management
12 July 2007 | Sarah Higgins, University of Edinburgh
Standards Watch 3: PREMIS Data Dictionary
15 February 2007 | Sarah Higgins, University of Glasgow
Standards Watch 2: Using Metadata Standards
15 February 2007 | Sarah Higgins, University of Glasgow
Standards Watch 1: What are Metadata Standards?
29 August 2006 | Sarah Higgins, University of Glasgow

Further standards watch 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.