Briefing Papers
Among the many online learning resources that the DCC offers digital curators are high-level briefing papers and legal watch, standards watch and technology watch papers.
Our digital library of resources is free to use and contains everything you need to engage effectively in digital curation and data preservation activities.
The DCC provides a range of high-level papers that provide an introduction to all areas of digital curation.
- The Introduction to Curation is made up of short papers that are designed to help grow your basic understanding of key curation issues by providing a high-level introduction to a given topic.
- Making the Case for Research Data Management - in this briefing we show how institutions have taken a lead in establishing research data policies and services that will support them.
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5 Steps to Research Data Readiness is our handy pocket sized guide aimed at IT service managers.
- Legal Watch Papers provide a brief introduction to the legal issues you might face as a digital curator.
- Standards Watch Papers summarise key standards in the area of digital curation.
- Technology Watch Papers introduce tools and resources you may want to use to curate digital objects.
The overviews may also be used in discussions with senior management and decision makers to help raise awareness of the need for better research data management and preservation.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, email us at info@dcc.ac.uk or call our Help Desk on 0131 651 1239. We are always happy to respond directly to more specific digital curation enquiries.
Alternatively, if you’re not in an urgent rush, check back again soon. We regularly review and update our library as new research data management and preservation programmes bring to light additional resources for digital curators.
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I2S2 project
I2S2 project
The aim of the Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) project was to uncover what’s needed to implement a data-driven research infrastructure in the structural sciences – chemistry in particular. Issues of scale, complexity and inter-disciplinary research throughout the data lifecycle were explored over 18 months from October 2009 to March 2011.
