Creation

ShareGeo Open

ShareGeo Open is a data repository for Open data. There are lots of useful spatial datasets that have been deposited by users for others to download and re-use. This create – share – reuse philosophy is central to ShareGeo Open. All the data in the repository is open and can be re-used freely making it ideal for students, researchers and teaching staff to find data. In addition to the just downloading data, users can upload data to the repository.  URL: www.sharegeo.ac.uk
http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/
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The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010

In this detailed white paper, IDC researches and analyses the impact of ever-increasing amounts of digital information generated worldwide.
http://www.emc.com/about/destination/digital_universe/pdf/Expanding_Digital_Universe_IDC_WhitePaper_022507.pdf
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WebCite

WebCite® is a project initiated by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto intended to digitally archive web material (web pages, PDF documents, and so on) which are cited in scholarly articles. The idea of WebCite is that authors of scholarly papers (as well as editors and publishers of scholarly work) are increasingly citing digital material which is in the public domain on the web, yet which is at risk to disappear, i.e.
http://www.webcitation.org
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Web2Rights

Within the context of academia, a wide range of new and developing services, software and other technologies are being deployed, developed and adapted to engage and communicate with staff, students and new audiences. The software and technologies are diverse and are reshaping user engagement, the concept of "community" and experiences within the context of teaching, learning, research and administration.
http://www.web2rights.org.uk/
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ICT Guides Website

The ICT Guides website is designed to help arts and humanities researchers find out more about the use of Information and Communications Technology in their work by showing them:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/
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Archiving, distribution and preservation of language corpora

Chapter 6 of 'Developing Linguistic Corpora', in the series of Guides to Good Practice from the Arts and Humanities Data Service. This chapter focusses on planning for and creating a sustainable electronic resource. Functionality:  Online HTML book, unrestricted access. Level of Expertise:  This guide is for researchers who are creating or using electronic corpora, and for curators of language resources.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/chapter6.htm
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PHOTHEREL (PHOTographic HERitage ELearning)

PHOTHEREL was a Socrates (Minerva) project, financed by the European Commission, through which four partners combined their experience: The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), the FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen (Belgium), the Service de la Formation Continue of the Universite Toulouse2-Le Mirail (France) and the Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Image (CESI) of the University of Bucharest (Romania). The project mainly aimed at developing a methodology for a "justified" digitization of photographic heritage.
http://www.photherel.net
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ICSTI - International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

ICSTI, The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI's mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community.
http://www.icsti.org
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The DCC is funded by

Joint Information Systems Committee