essary to undertake archives and records
management jobs, regardless of the medi-
um. Modules include Archival Theory;
Description, Cataloguing & Navigation;
Archives, Records & Information
Management; Records & Evidence;
Records and the Transition to the Digital;
Document Encoding; 2D Digitisation, and
Management, Curation & Preservation of
Digital Materials. All modules are available
individually, and may be useful to archivists
and records managers for continuing pro-
fessional development purposes. The course
may also be taken part-time over two years.
For further details, see: http://www.hatii.arts.
gla.ac.uk/imp/.
documents and datasets being gen-
als, and scientists, and a growing emphasis
being placed on digital content, curat-
ing these examples of society's heritage is
becoming a more and more demanding task.
Digital documents are vulnerable to the rap-
idly changing market, where technology can
become obsolete, as well as the inherent fra-
gility of digital media. To address these issues,
a Digital Curation Centre is to be set up in
the UK to support institutions in the storage,
management and preservation of digital data.
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk) and the e-Science
Core Programme (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/
escience/). The DCC is made up of a con-
sortium comprising the University of
Glasgow's Humanities Advanced Technology
and Information Institute (HATII) and its
Information Services (http://www.hatii.
arts.gla.ac.uk/), the University of Edinburgh
(http://www.edinburgh.ac.uk), UKOLN at
ac.uk/) and the Council for the Central
Laboratory of the Research Councils
(http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/). Digital curation
refers to data archiving and preservation, but
also includes a wider spectrum of issues such
as the life cycle of the digital document and
its management.
· To support practice and expertise in
digital data curation and preservation
· To establish a vibrant research programme
· To ensure continuing access to data of
scholarly interest
· To promote collaboration between
and other organisations or individuals
within the community of practice.
issues such as e-learning and scholarly
communication
a means to unify themes to aid research
and the formal launch of the Digital
Immediate deliverables include a Web por-
tal, an e-journal, an advisory service (the
Helpdesk is already open and can be con-
tacted on digitalcuration@ed.ac.uk), and
outreach programmes.
be found on the Digital Curation