Digital Preservation Coalition

DCC

Excerpt from DPC Annual Report 2008-2009

The DCC provides a national focus for support of curation issues and promotes expertise and good practice for the management of research data. The DCC produces a range of resources from high-level briefing papers, technology watch papers, case studies and interviews to detailed digital curation manual instalments. The DCC also offers a varied timetable of events including information days and workshops and an Annual Conference. Following successful conferences in the UK in 2005 and 2006, and in Washington, USA, in 2007, the 4th International Digital Curation conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in December, 2008. This year the 5th conference will be held from 2nd to 4th December in London. The DCC also sponsors the open access International Journal of Digital Curation, published by UKOLN, the only research journal in its field.

The DCC works closely with a wide range of organisations and projects, including several large-scale European-funded projects including CASPAR, PARSE.Insight and PLANETS. The DCC has a significant support role in the emerging JISC-funded Research Data Management Programme.