JISC

JISC announced today that it has approved funding for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) for a further three years from March 2007. The DCC has for the last three years provided a focal point for research, advice and support to UK institutions in the field of digital curation and prservation and in its next phase of development will build on its considerable achievements to date to provide a stronger service in support of research.

Director of the DCC Chris Rusbridge welcomed the extension of funding, and the confidence demonstrated by JISC in the work of the DCC: "We see that digital data are being taken ever more seriously across science and scholarship today. The changes introduced in our plans for DCC Phase 2 will help us get the message across even better on how to curate data for use now and in the future". 

One of the activities already established as central to the work of the DCC is the International Digital Curation Conference. The inaugural conference held in Bath last year was attended by hundreds of delegates from the UK and around the world and its upcoming conference is set to repeat last year’s success. Focusing on the topic of digital data curation in practice, the conference’s keynote speakers will be Dr Hans F Hoffmann of CERN and Dr Clifford Lynch, director of the US Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).  

Speaking ahead of his visit to the UK, Dr Lynch welcomed the extension of funding by JISC and looked forward to the upcoming conference, saying: "I'm delighted to learn that support for the DCC has been extended. The Centre has done enormous good in advancing thinking about digital preservation and indeed the fundamental nature of scholarship in the digital age, both for the UK and indeed worldwide. The DCC's role in convening an international conference of this quality and range is a testimony to its progress." 

For further information on the DCC and the forthcoming International Digital Curation Conference, please go to: Digital Curation Centre