Dr Liz Lyon

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Digital Curation Centre
a centre of expertise in data curation and
preservation
Engaging the Users the Outreach Community
Support Programme

• Dr Liz Lyon
• Associate Director, Outreach

Funders
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Overview

• Raising awareness and dissemination
• Web portal
• Electronic Journal
• Annual International Conference
• Understanding the users and their needs
• Creating a taxonomy
• Gathering requirements
• The Associates Network

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DCC Web site www.dcc.ac.uk
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Draft Home page of new DCC eJournal
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Sample issue January 2005 Launch
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1st DCC International Conference

• Planning so far
• Location - Bath UK
• September 2005 (tbc)
• 2-day event
• Invited speakers
• Peer-reviewed research papers

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User requirements analysis

• Commissioned study
• Leona Carpenter
• Reporting now
• Desk-based research
• Focus groups
• Interviews
• Results will inform research, development service
  definition / delivery and outreach
• Recommendations and priority tasks

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Outline Taxonomy of digital curation users by role

• 4. Policy makers
• funding bodies
• other leaders

2. Data Curators
1. Data Creators
3. Data Re-users
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Outline Taxonomy by significant function of
organisational entity

• Research

4. Funders
2. Service provision
3. Learning teaching
5. Policy / strategy makers
Designated communities
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Research Development
Annotation services Ontology development Automatin
g metadata creation Tools and toolkits Data
Format Description Language Identifiers Registries
Economic and cost-benefits studies
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Advisory services
Ask-a-Curator FAQs, reports, briefings,
awareness-raising materials Best practice
guidance Storage media Like Erpanet Advise
Government, Research Councils, funding bodies
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Professional development
Short courses Certification Conferences,
seminars, workshops Secondments to DCC and to
working repository services
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Outreach Community-building
Leadership for the future Case studies Sharing
solutions Collaboration with other
partners International peers Industry links
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Associates Network
Goals Develop understanding, share best practice,
advance research, promote recognition, develop
consensus Membership HEIs, FEIs, national bodies,
industry partners, funders, research groups,
individuals Benefits Early access to RD
outputs, advisory services, training, input to
definition and design, community
participation Discussion Forum www.dcc.ac.uk
Please join us!