DCC Service Objectives

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DCC Service Objectives

• Cambridge
• 16 June 2005

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Service Aims

• Dissemination of research and development fruits
• Assist organisations in practice of
• selection
• acquisition
• ingest
• exploitation
• not a Digital Repository

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Services Overview
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Help Desk and FAQs

• Single point of contact for queries
• logging
• tracking
• filtering
• Support for online bookings for site visits and
  training
• Knowledge base repurposed in Frequently Asked
  Questions publications

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Advisory Service

• One-stop-shop where relevant information is
  gathered, evaluated and presented
• Diverse expertise
• Strategic
• Technical
• Practical
• Legal
• Works closely with every other part of the DCC
• monitors standards and technology watch outputs
• keeps community informed of leading edge
  activities
• repackages R D materials for practitioners

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Advisory Service site visits

• Site visits and focus groups
• engage with community
• present insights
• gather user requirements and feedback
• inform subsequent DCC work

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Standards Watch

• Covering existing and emerging standards
• Working with community and standards bodies (e.g.
  ISO)
• Organising associates groups around new standards
  developments
• Initiating standardisation definitions where gaps
  identified
• Currently re-purposing Diffuse database of
  standards materials

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Audit and Certification (1)

• OCLC/RLG Trusted Digital Repositories Attributes
  and Responsibilities
• high level model for design, delivery and
  maintenance of digital repositories
• RLG and NARA aiming towards certification
  requirements
• DCC is participating with representation on the
  working group
• Aiming for international consensus

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Audit and Certification (2)

• DCC testbeds to support development of audit and
  certification standards
• Commitment to
• offer guidance on self-audit and
  self-certification
• carry out independent audits
• issue certificates to qualifying repositories

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Development Workshops and Professional Development

• Series of workshops and training events
• reflect existing knowledge and practices
• enable community to collaborate to build
  understanding in new areas
• network of learning for demand-driven training
  and continuing professional development
• Designed to promote participation in FE and HE
  communities

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Upcoming DCC Workshops

• Persistent Identifiers (June, Glasgow)
• Long-term Curation within Digital Repositories
  (July, Cambridge)
• Joint Workshop on Digital Curation Cost Models
  (July, London)
• Long-term Curation of Medical Databases (October,
  Lisbon)
• For others see DCC Website

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Digital Curation Manual (DCC-DCM)

• A world class resource
• Constructed from topic-specific chapters
• written by international experts
• editorial board comprising leading researchers
  and practitioners
• 45 initial topics including
• Appraisal and Selection Costs Freedom of
  Information Interoperability the OAIS Reference
  Model Preservation Strategies and Open Source
• Less in-depth insight offered by DCC Briefing
  Papers, aimed at needs of senior managers

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DCC-DCM Peer Review Panel

• Neil Beagrie, JISC/British Library Partnership
  Manager (UK)
• Georg Büechler, Digital Preservation Specialist,
  Swiss Federal Archives (Switzerland)
• Filip Boudrez, Researcher DAVID, City Archives of
  Antwerp (Belgium)
• Andrew Charlesworth, Senior Research Fellow in IT
  and Law, University of Bristol (UK)
• Robin L. Dale, Program Manager, RLG Member
  Programs and Initiatives, Research Libraries
  Group (USA)
• Wendy Duff, Associate Professor, Faculty of
  Information Studies, University of Toronto
  (Canada)
• Peter Dukes, Strategy and Liaison Manager,
  Infections Immunity Section, Research
  Management Group, Medical Research Council (UK)
• Terry Eastwood, Professor, School of Library,
  Archival and Information Studies, University of
  British Columbia (Canada)
• Julie Esanu, Program Officer, U.S. National
  Committee for CODATA, National Academy of
  Sciences (USA)
• Paul Fiander, Head of BBC Information and
  Archives, BBC (UK)
• Hans Hofman, Director, Erpanet Senior Advisor,
  Nationaal Archief van Nederland (Netherlands)
• Max Kaiser, Coordinator of Research and
  Development, Austrian National Library (Austria)
• Carl Lagoze, Senior Research Associate, Cornell
  University (USA)
• Nancy McGovern, Associate Director, IRIS Research
  Department, Cornell University (USA)
• Regan Moore, Associate Director, Data-Intensive
  Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center (USA)
• Alan Murdock, Head of Records Management Centre,
  European Investment Bank (Luxembourg)
• Julian Richards, Director, Archaeology Data
  Service, University of York (UK)
• Donald Sawyer, Interim Head, National Space
  Science Data Center, NASA/GSFC (USA)
• Jean-Pierre Teil, Head of Constance Program,
  Archives nationales de France (France)

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Tools and Technologies

• Accumulate and Maintain Registry and online
  Repository of relevant tools
• Repository Implementations
• Packaging Tools
• Rendering Software
• Format Converters
• Device Drivers