Digital Curation: A How-To-Do-It Manual

About This Site

This website accompanies the book. It provides:

• Checklists that can be used as guidance and reminders about the tasks that comprise digital curation
• Templates that can be used as the basis for developing digital curation plans and procedures
• Links to useful websites.

(C) 2010 by Ross Harvey. All Rights Reserved. 

Part I: Digital Curation: Scope and Incentives

• Chapter 2: The Changing Landscape
• Chapter 3: Conceptual Models

Part II: Key Requirements for Digital Curation

• Chapter 5: Curation and Curators
• Chapter 6: Description and Representation Information 
• Chapter 7: Preservation Planning and Policy 
• Chapter 8: Sharing Knowledge and Collaborating 

Part III: The Digital Curation Lifecycle in Action

• Chapter 9: Designing Data
• Chapter 10: Creating Data
• Chapter 11: Deciding What Data to Keep
• Chapter 12: Ingesting Data
• Chapter 14: Storing Data
• Chapter 15: Using and Reusing Data


The author would like to be advised of other web-accessible checklists and templates to add to this collection, and can be contacted by email.