Curation Reference Manual
Our comprehensive Curation Reference Manual (formerly the Digital Curation Manual) contains advice, in-depth information and criticism on current digital curation techniques and best practice.
The Manual is an ongoing, community-driven project, which involves members of the DCC community suggesting topics, authoring manual instalments and conducting peer reviews.
Access the Manual online
So far, we have commissioned our extended network of specialist partners and associates to author more than 20 instalments of the Manual. You can view these instalments by clicking on the links below for completed chapters and those still in production. We also welcome your suggestions for further topics.
Completed chapters | Chapters in production
Each instalment is designed to help data custodians, producers and users better understand the challenges they face and the roles that they play in creating, managing and preserving digital information over time. For each topic covered, suggestions for best practice and real life examples are given.
To ensure that the Curation Reference Manual remains as relevant as possible, the DCC will undertake periodic reviews of the individual instalments and may commission updates where necessary to reflect any major developments in digital curation.
As an added quality control, our peer review panel, comprising a number of international experts in the field of digital curation, reviews each instalment produced.
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- Digital Curation
- About Us
- News
- Events
- Resources
- Briefing Papers
- Introduction to Curation
- Annotation
- Appraisal and Selection
- Curating emails
- Curating e-science data
- Curating geospatial data
- Data accreditation
- Data Citation and Linking
- Data protection
- Database archiving
- Digital repositories
- Freedom of Information
- Genre classification
- Interoperability
- Persistent Identifiers
- Trust through self audit
- Using OAIS for curation
- Web 2.0
- What is digital curation?
- Legal Watch Papers
- Standards Watch Papers
- Technology Watch Papers
- Making the Case for RDM
- Introduction to Curation
- How-to Guides
- Curation Reference Manual
- Peer review
- Editorial board
- Completed chapters
- Appraisal and Selection
- Archival Metadata
- Archiving Web Resources
- Curating Emails
- File Formats
- Investment in an Intangible Asset
- Learning Object Metadata
- Metadata
- Ontologies
- Open Source for Digital Curation
- Preservation Metadata
- Preservation Strategies
- Principles for Enabling Access to Engineering Design Information Through Life
- Chapters in production
- Curation Lifecycle Model
- Policy and legal
- Data Management Plans
- Case studies
- Tools and applications
- Standards
- Publications
- External resources
- Roles
- Curation journals
- Informatics research
- Briefing Papers
- Training
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IDCC
The 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) took place on 6–8 December 2010 in Chicago. Its theme was ‘Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade’. Check out the programme for links to the slides and posters presented at the conference, or catch up with what people have said about it in the event Netvibes page. Last year the conference took place in Bristol, UK, 5-7 December 2011.