In order better to meet the needs of its diverse University of California (UC) constituencies, the California Digital Library UC Curation Center is re-envisioning its approach to digital curation infrastructure by devolving function into a set of granular, independent, but interoperable microservices. Since each of these services is small and self-contained, they are more easily developed, depl...

In the academic year 2020-21 Middlesex University maths students accessed all learning sessions remotely. Each of these interactive was live-streamed, recorded and uploaded to our Virtual Learning Environment, providing hundreds hours recorded, unedited lecture for review.This case study reports on a project (partially funded by an IMA Education Grant) in which we invited undergraduates reflect...

Funding bodies increasingly require researchers to produce Data Management Plans (DMPs). The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has created DMP Online, a web-based tool which draws upon an analysis of funders’ requirements to enable researchers to create and export customisable DMPs, both at the grant application stage and during the project’s lifetime. The International Journal of Digital Curation ...

Data curation includes the many tasks needed to ensure data maintains its value over time. Given the maturity of many data curation tasks, including data transformation and data cleaning, it is surprising that rigorous empirical evaluations of research ideas are so scarce. In this work, we argue that thorough evaluation of data curation systems imposes several major obstacles that need to be ov...

The proliferation of Web, database and social networking technologies has enabled us to produce, publish and exchange digital assets at an enormous rate. This vast amount of information that is either digitized or born-digital needs to be collected, organized and preserved in a way that ensures that our digital assets and the information they carry remain available for future use. Digital curat...

With digital curation’s increasingly important role in the fast-paced and data-intensive information environment, there is a need to identify a set of competencies for professionals in this growing field. As part of a curriculum development project funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, a total of 173 job advertisements posted between October 2011 and April 2012 were colle...

The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks Project aims to offer domain-specific advice on standards relevant to digital preservation and curation, to help curators identify which standards they should be using and where they can be appropriately implemented, to ensure authoritative digital material. The Project uses the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model and Web 2.0 technology, to present standards framew...