The Digital Curation Centre: a vision for digital curation

Author

Rusbridge, Chris ; Burnhill, Peter ; Ross, Seamus ; Buneman, Peter ; Giaretta, David ; Lyon, Liz ; Atkinson, Malcolm

Author_Institution

Digital Curation Centre, Edinburgh Univ., UK

fYear

2005

fDate

20-24 June 2005

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

41

Abstract

We describe the aims and aspirations for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the UK response to the realisation that digital information is both essential and fragile. We recognise the equivalence of preservation as "interoperability with the future", asserting that digital curation is concerned with "communication across time". We see the DCC as having relevance for present day data curation and for continuing data access for generations to come. We describe the structure and plans of the DCC, designed to support these aspirations and based on a view of world class research being developed into curation services, all of which are underpinned by outreach to the broadest community.

Keywords

information retrieval systems; data access; digital data curation; digital information; Councils; Couplings; Data analysis; Distributed databases; Laboratories; Management information systems; Ontologies; Publishing; Resource management; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local to Global Data Interoperability - Challenges and Technologies, 2005

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9228-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LGDI.2005.1612461

Filename

1612461