LibGuides: Digital Scholarship: Data Curation & Preservation

Digitization Standards

Digital preservation is the set of processes and activities that ensures long-term, sustained storage of, access to and interpretation of digital information.

Organizations

Data Curation and Preservation Resources

Digital Curation is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital Preservation is a set of activities required to make sure digital objects can be located, rendered, used and understood in the future

What is digital curation? The digital curation lifecycle. JISC Digital Curation Centre
For research teams to enjoy the full benefit of the research data that is produced, institutions must put in place skilled digital curators and effective curation lifecycle management. This will help to ensure that important digital research data is adequately safeguarded for future use.
Digital Humanities (DH) Curation Guide
an academic community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities
What is Digital Preservation? DigitalPreservationEurope
Digital preservation is a set of activities required to make sure digital objects can be located, rendered, used and understood in the future.
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DigitalPreservationEurope, building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe.
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
Published by NYU Press. Copyright (c) 2009 New York University.
Digital Preservation Management Tutorial
Definitions, key concepts, practical advice, exercises, and up-to-date references. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System
Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Model