Digital curation is the management and preservation of digital data/information over the long-term.

Our Guides and Checklists are aimed at the those in research data management support roles.

An extension of FITS that enables data to be defined to specify physical, or world coordinates within each pixel in an image. The conventions were orignally proposed in 2002 then incorporated into the ...

The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks were developed in partnership with a number of organisations with the aim of presenting searchable frameworks of standards relevant to digital curation and ...

Practical guidance and examples to help you develop your Data Management Plan ...

A study-data oriented model that captures high-level information about scientific studies and the data that they produce, primarily tailored for the physical sciences. Used by the astronomy community ...

The Wisconsin Land INformation Clearinghouse review of metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for CSDGM, ISO 19115, Dublin Core, and DIF ...

A list of nearly 40 Minimum Information standards projects registered with the MIBBI initiative. A a virtual laboratory for neurophysiology, enabling sharing and collaborative exploitation of data, ...

Specifications for the minimum information that should be collected about research data in order for it to be re-used.

The Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Schema is an evolving comprehensive standard for the access to and exchange of data about specimens and observations ...

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK and the EU-funded DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) project jointly released the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on ...

Each instalment is designed to help data custodians, producers and users better understand the challenges they face and the roles that they play in creating, managing and preserving digital ...