DC 101 materials

Digital Curation 101 employs the curation lifecycle model sections as a means of presenting content to students.

The DCC is keen to support the reuse of our generic training materials as the basis of more specific training aimed at different disciplines and/or institutions. Our generic materials are accessible below for review and tailoring.

We kindly request that you cite these materials in any derivatives that you develop and encourage you to share your tailored materials with us so that we can disseminate them to a wider audience.

If you would like to discuss this with us in more detail or have any questions, please contact us.

Introduction

• About the DC 101
• Incentives for curation
• Publisher model
• OAIS overview

All Stages

• What is digital curation
• Curation and preservation
• Preservation planning
• Description and representation information
• Critical elements
• Community watch
• Briefing paper on digital curation
• Roles and skills
• Policy development tips and resources

Conceptualisation

• Conceptualising data   
• Research Council policy table and overview
• Conceptualisation checklist
• Data Management Planning checklist
• Briefing paper on data protection
• Data management planning tips and resources

Create and or Receive

• Creating data
• Create checklist
• Curation Reference Manual instalment on file formats
• Curation Reference Manual instalment on metadata

Appraise and Select

• Appraising data
• Select and appraise checklist
• Data Asset Framework (DAF) Implementation Guide
• Curation Reference Manual instalment on appraisal and selection
• How to guide on selecting and appraising data

Ingest

• Ingesting data into an archive or repository
• Ingest and store checklist
• ERPANET ingest tool
• Briefing paper on digital repositories
• Technology Watch paper on ePrints
• Technology Watch paper on DSpace
• Technology Watch paper on Fedora

Preservation Action

• Preservation actions
• Preservation methods
• Preservation tools
• Preservation action checklist
• Preservation scenarios and tools - Planets Testbed Methodology
• Curation Reference Manual instalment on preservation strategies

Store

• Storing data
• Ingest and store checklist
• Repository Audit and Assessment: DRAMBORA Interactive Manual

Access and Reuse

• Accessing and reusing data
• Access and reuse checklist
• Briefing paper on sharing medical data
• Briefing paper on Creative Commons
• Briefing paper on IPR in databases

Transform

• Migrating data
• Transforming data 
• How to guide on licensing data

Other useful resources: 

• Case studies - for a look at how institutions and disciplines are tackling data management and curation challenges.
• Policy and legal resources - to help you develop and implement policies that adhere to legal requirements and funding body mandates.
• Standards overviews - there are a lot of standards out there to choose from. We've developed short summaries of some of the key curation-related standards help you to make the right choices.
• Tools and applications - we've developed a suite of tools to help you better understand your particular data management and curation needs, assess your current activity and infrastructure, and to plan for improvement .

• Curation Reference Manual instalments - for those wishing to delve a little deeper into specific curation topics.

• Data management courses and training - we've developed a list of training opportunities available in the UK and further afield.

The DCC are keen to augment this list with additional resources as they emerge. Please get in touch if you'd like to recommend a course or resource that could be added.