
Unit 7: Storing information - Digital Curation
What is Digital curation?
Digital curation means organising and storing digital data effectively so that is is readily available for use in the future. This means that it can be easily shared among the research community and so increases the value of your research.
This is especially important if you have used datasets (such as statistics or survey data) in your research. If you have been awarded a research grant, then it is often a condition of the award that the data is freely available to other researchers.
What about your research?
What data have you used in your research and assignments? How have you stored it? It is sensible to use different storage methods, as one type of storage device may fall out of use or suffer technical failure. CDs can de-laminate and flash drives can become corrupted! Therefore you should back up your data onto more than one type of device and store it in two separate locations, just in case! More data is avialable from the Digital Curation Centre, they have a useful FAQs sheet.
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