This seminar gave an overview of current and emerging approaches to the preservation of digital information and records. It looked at the current issues around the University of Edinburgh's corporate transactional databases and information resources such as e-mail and web content and explored some of the possible solutions and related practices. A key aim of the seminar was to encourage audience participation and exchange of ideas.
In a joint initiative with the JISC-funded eBank UK and SPECTRa projects, we delivered a workshop that: described the current "state-of-play" in digital curation best practice; used Chemistry as a discipline to illustrate a pro-active approach to data curation, where access, discovery, use, re-use and preservation of the data is fundamental to the advancement of the science; drew on the experience of other disciplines to illustrate user requirements, issues and barriers to implementation of curation methodologies; and identified priority areas for further work to promote data curation among
This event offered everyone the chance to find out more about the work we do, view demos and discuss issues surrounding the curation of data; plus, a fabulous opportunity to visit the DCC Head Office and meet with other Associates and chat to DCC staff from all areas of the organisation.
This meeting, which included members of JISC, JORUM and the DCC, discussed issues regarding the long-term curation and preservation of digital learning objects.
This event focused on practical tools and approaches that are currently being used or developed to assist with the long-term curation of digital information within digital repositories. In particular, this event examined ingest processes, description of digital information, preservation activity and certification efforts and how they can impact the long-term usability of digital information.
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