DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop

DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
10-12 March 2009
London

The majority of scientific research is carried out through short-term, funded
projects. Accordingly, principle investigators and researchers must constantly
be on the lookout for new funding opportunities to continue their research
activity. This, coupled with often limited staffing resources, has meant that
data management and curation activities have not generally been given a high
priority within research projects. However, research councils and funding
bodies are becoming increasingly aware of the value of sharing and reusing
data and now require evidence of adequate and appropriate provisions for
data management and curation in new grant funding applications.

To assist researchers in developing sound data management and curation
plans, we developed this workshop to provide an introduction to digital
curation and the range of activities that should be considered when planning
and implementing new projects.

About the Course
Using our DCC Curation Lifecycle Model [PDF] as a reference point, this three-
day course will employ a mixture of lectures and practical exercises to equip
participants with both a theoretical underpinning of core digital curation issues
as well as hands-on experience in applying the lessons learned.

Benefits of Participation
Upon completing this workshop participants will gain an understanding of the
range and nature of data management and curation activities that should be
considered when planning new research projects, and will be better equipped
to develop and implement sound data management and curation plans for
future research funding bids.

Target Audience
The target audience for this workshop is researchers with funding body data
management and curation mandates to fulfil and information management
specialists. A key goal is the integration of these communities of practice to
share their experiences and to identify where, when and how they could best
cooperate to meet data curation challenges.

Please note: This course aims to introduce participants to the range of
activities and stakeholders that should be considered for active data curation –
from conceptualisation of research projects through to access and reuse of
data generated. If you are more interested in learning about organisational
and technological issues with regards to digital preservation, we highly
recommend the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) which will be
running from February 23-25th 2009 in London. It is targeted to managers in
institutions who are grappling with fundamental digital preservation issues.
More details can be found at http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/about-dptp.html.

Costs
This course is being offered free of charge as a pilot. Places are limited to 20
participants.

To register, please go to http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/digital-curation-101–
2009/.

Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
british.editor@erpanet.org