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If you find yourself increasingly bewildered about digital curation tools, you’re not alone. Most studies that explore currently available tools leave many questions unanswered, causing data custodians across the country to be unsure of which tools to apply.

As the UK’s leading centre of expertise in digital data preservation, the DCC is committed to alleviating this confusion. We can provide you with the best advice about digital curation tools – not only how to use them, but also how they relate to one another and how their costs and benefits stack up.

DCC Catalogue of Tools

You can follow the links to the right in order to access information about the DCC's own tools, or alternatively have a look at our catalogue of digital curation tools and technical information. Here you’ll find all you need to automate important digital data preservation processes including ingest, metadata creation, storage and access for the reuse of digital objects.

Digital curation tools developed externally are evaluated on an ongoing basis. We also encourage all data custodians to share with us their experiences of implementing digital preservation programmes with these tools. Email your views from the field to info@dcc.ac.uk

As well as contributing to quality control, your input will allow us to record how individual institutions deal with a range of digital curation challenges.

The DCC is funded by

Joint Information Systems Committee