Curation Reference Manual
Our Curation Reference 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.
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So far, we have commissioned our network of specialist partners and associates to author more than 20 instalments of the Manual. 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.
- Home
- 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?
- Making the Case for RDM
- Research Data Readiness
- Legal Watch Papers
- Standards Watch Papers
- Technology Watch Papers
- 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
- The Role of Microfilm in Digital Preservation
- Chapters in production
- Curation Lifecycle Model
- Policy and legal
- Data Management Plans
- Tools
- Case studies
- Repository audit and assessment
- Standards
- Publications and presentations
- Roles
- Curation journals
- Informatics research
- External resources
- Briefing Papers
- Training
- Projects
- Community
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.
