Dcc Overview Eris

The Digital Curation Centre - Background Graham Pryor, Martin Donnelly & Sarah Jones

The DCC rationale
Build capacity, capability and skills in data curation across UK HE research
Support developing data curation practice within the UK HE community
Facilitate and promote an effective and self-sustaining community of practitioners
Support the JISC research data management programme

What is the DCC - what do we do?
The UK’s centre of excellence in digital curation and preservation
A trusted broker of data curation knowledge, experience and resources within the HE community
Run events to increase stakeholder awareness and promote good practice – e.g. themed workshops, regional data roadshows, annual conference, Research Data Management Forum…
Provide training for research data service and support staff, researchers and curation practitioners – e.g. DC101, Tools of the Trade, Train the Trainer courses…

Four functions, four activity areas
Functions:
Observatory
Outreach
Innovation
Support JISC
Activities:
Resources
Advocacy
Community development
Training & professional development

Activity 1: Resources
Identify requirements and monitor, gather, and evaluate curation guidelines, information and new tools, functioning as a knowledge broker and trusted exchange
Build on existing resources and tailor them to specific user communities / needs such as JISC projects, researchers, data repositories
guidance on publisher, funder and legal requirements
data management plans to help researchers in preparing grant applications

Activity 2: Advocacy
Identify, record and disseminate curation best practice
Promote best practice and knowledge transfer – directly and as a ‘matchmaker’ or clearing house
Promoting the value of curation to Research Councils and HEI senior management

Activity 3: Community Development
Observe and monitor practitioner activity to inform new partnerships and networks
As facilitator and catalyst enable the pro-active engagement of stakeholders with critical issues
Promote domain-specific methods, tools and templates
Supporting our user communities by building on existing strands of activity
RDMF as a forum for data managers
Links with research groups developed through eCrystals, SCARP, MESSAGE and Data Asset Framework
Annual review of cutting edge in curation at International Digital Curation Conference

Activity 4: Training & Development
Evaluate new curriculum development initiatives and pedagogic approaches through engagement with partners and professional bodies
Deliver curation training courses and enable access to learning resources
Further development of DC101 suite of courses
Online training course planned
Data management training for PhD students
Joint practitioner / researcher courses with Digital Preservation Training Programme (with U. London Computer Centre)

Existing DCC tools

Data Management Plans
Have researched key UK funder requirements and developed content checklist based on benchmarking and consultation approach
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-policies/
Currently scoping requirements for an online tool to help researchers customise plans based on their context and complete according to best practice

Data Asset Framework
Tool to help identify data – can help with ingest
Assessment of data management practices – found useful for outreach / building relationships
Can help scope researchers’ needs for support – suggested as requirements gathering tool for JISC 07/09 data infrastructure projects

DRAMBORA
Risk-management methodology for repositories
Customisable online reporting tool
Can help to validate current and planned work
A link in the preservation workflow chain

Useful resources for repository managers
DIFFUSE standards frameworks
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/diffuse/
Curation Manual
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-manual/chapters/
Research Data Management Forum (RDMF)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/data-forum/

Thank You
Further questions and follow-up…
ERIS project
http://eriscotland.wordpress.com/about/
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Digital Curation Centre
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
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