A report from the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) / Regional eScience Collaborative Workshop, held at the eScience Institute in Edinburgh on June 12, 2008. The DCC is committed to forging and strengthening links between the digital preservation and eScience communities via its eScience Liaison team. This event was the fifth in a series of workshops which are being arranged throughout the UK, with...

The paper will illustrate the “CombeChem Project” experience of supporting the chemical data lifecycle, from inception in the laboratory to organization of the data from the chemical literature. The paper will follow the different parts of the data lifecycle, beginning with a discussion of how the laboratory data could (or should) be recorded, and enriched with appropriate metadata, so as to en...

This paper looks into the current tertiary and vocational offering in the domain of digital curation in two small countries, Malta and New Zealand. It illustrates how the specifics of local memory institutions and digital media sector influence the existing course, and identifies areas which can be improved. Particular emphasis in both countries needs to be placed on the vocational education an...

8:00-8:15 Welcome and Introductions Helen Tibbo 8:15-8:30 Overview of the Day’s Topics Cal Lee 8:30-9:00 Curation Needs and Behaviors  Carolyn Hank The Blog Archiving Landscape: Services and Approaches for Personal Blog Preservation  Matt Kirschenbaum – More than Words: Literary Authorship and Word Processing  Doug Reside – On Becoming a Digital Curator for the Performing Arts 9:00-9:20 Brea...