Alex Ball has deposited Review of the State of the Art of the Digital Curation of Research Data in Opus.
Here's an excerpt :
The aim of this report is to present the state of the art of the digital curation of research data, in terms of both theoretical understanding and practical application, and note points of particular interest to the ERIM Project. The report begins by reviewing the concepts of data curation and digital curation, and then exploring the terminologies currently in use for describing digital repositories and data lifecycles. Some parallels are also drawn between digital curation practice and design and engineering practice. Existing guidance on data curation from research funders, established data centres and the Digital Curation Centre is summarized in section 3. A review of some important standards and tools that have been developed to assist in research data management and digital repository management is presented in section 4. Finally, a short case study of implementing a new data management plan is presented in section 5, followed by some conclusions and recommendations in section 6.
