Associates Network event Welcome

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Associates Network eventWelcome!

• Chris Rusbridge, Director

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Agenda

• Presentations
• This introduction
• Legal issues
• Research roundup
• Services Development highlights
• Demonstrations _at_ lunch (AT)
• Evaluation your chance to influence our future
  service to you!
• Discussion close

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Curation

• Data increasingly important as evidence
• Experimental verifiability (the basis of science)
• Unrepeatable observations experiments
  (particularly environmental in broadest sense)
• Legal, compliance transactions
• Cultural resources
• Preservation view vs Publishing view
• More on this later

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Lynch remarks

• Closing the Curation Conference
• 3 views of digital curation
• Finite process, handover to preservation
• Whole life process, evolving object(s)
• Collection as a living thing

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Digital curation?
For later use
Static
Digital preservation
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Digital curation?
For later use
In use now (and the future)
Static
Dynamic Long-term
Digital preservation
Digital curation
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Digital curation
For later use
In use now (and the future)
Static
Dynamic Long-term
Digital curation preservation
maintaining and adding value to a trusted body
of digital information for current and future
use
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Mission

• The over-riding purpose of the DCC is to
  support and promote continuing improvement in the
  quality of data curation, and of associated
  digital preservation

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Aims

• Establish vibrant research
• Build strong community relations
• Development activity leading to service
• Achieve the virtuous circle
• NOT a repository (funder mandate)!

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Organisation to Engage Collaborate
curation organisations eg DPC
communities of practice users
community support outreach
service definition delivery
management admin support
Associates Network
research collaborators
research
development co-ordination
testbeds tools
Industry
standards bodies
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Organisation to Engage Collaborate Leads
curation organisations eg DPC
communities of practice users
Bath
Associates Network
research collaborators
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
CCLRC
testbeds tools
Industry
standards bodies
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Achievements Research

• Database Group
• Annotation, archiving, citation, lineage,
  provenance, publishing
• CCLRC metadata curation
• Glasgow genre extraction
• Bath repository interactions

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Achievements Development

• RLG/NARA Certification checklist
• Representation information Registry/Repository

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Achievements Services

• Help Desk
• Workshops and events
• Curation manual
• Audit and certification
• From checklists to service?
• Standards and tools
• Representation information
• From tool to service?

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Achievements Outreach

• Developing web site content
• Conferences
• Associates Network and Forum

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Achievements management

• Developing international impact
• Developing policy impact

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Associated work

• DCC LOCKSS Technical Support Service
• (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
• DCC SCARP bid
• Disciplinary approaches to sharing, curation,
  re-use and preservation
• EU projects associated
• CASPAR
• Digital Preservation Europe
• PLANETS

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Next Steps

• Externally-moderated, reflective self-evaluation
• leading to continuation proposal to JISC
• Additional partnerships?
• JISC Capital Call possibilities
• Research proposal(s)

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Thank you!

• Associates Network important to us
• We want to make it ( the DCC) valuable to you
• Please help us do this better