JISC

Overview

The DCC Digital Curation Summer School (DCSS) is aimed at supporting the core curation needs of Information Services staff and scientific researchers in UK Higher Education. The DCC DCSS aims to produce a dynamic, practical, replicable, and extendable educational framework that will provide participants with the skills they will need to conceptualise, create, manage, describe, store, and reuse data over time. The summer school will focus on the practical, rather than the theoretical, and will contribute towards bridging the gap that currently exists between a general awareness of curation and preservation issues amongst the information services and scientific community, and their ability to practically address digital curation and preservation challenges within their actual working environment.

The DCC DCSS aims to produce a dynamic, practical, replicable, and extendable educational framework that will provide participants with the skills they will need to conceptualise, create, manage, describe, store, and reuse data over time. Participation in DCC DCSS will introduce attendees to the DCC Digital Curation Life- Cycle Model and provide them with a firm understanding of the individual role(s) they play in this life-cycle over time. The summer school will focus on the practical, rather than the theoretical, and will contribute towards bridging the gap that currently exists between a general awareness of curation and preservation issues amongst the information services and scientific community, and their ability to practically address digital curation and preservation challenges within their actual working environment. In addition, the DCC Digital Curation Summer School will offer students an opportunity to network with other scientific researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.

Project partners

• Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow
• UKOLN, University of Bath