The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management.
The DCC provides expert advice and practical help on how to store, manage, protect and share digital research data. They provide a broad range of resources including online tools, guidance and training. They also provides consultancy services on issues such as policy development and data management planning. Services are targeted primarily at the higher education community, both in the UK and internationally, but the DCC’s resources are of benefit to the commercial sector too.
DCC and PSDI
The future of research hinges on our ability to curate and preserve exceptional data. Initiatives such as the collaboration between DCC and PSDI exemplify this commitment. Through the shared creation of resources, training, and events like our Forum for Librarians and Research Support Professionals in Research Data for the Physical Sciences and our workshop on Creating Communities Around Best Practices and Common Challenges in Data for the DCC’s International Digital Curation Conference, we aim to drive progress in data stewardship. Together, these efforts lay the groundwork for addressing some of the most complex scientific challenges of our time.
High-quality data fuels breakthroughs in the physical sciences, serving as the cornerstone for innovation and discovery. By ensuring reliability and precision, such data drives meaningful, reproducible results and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration with fields like biology, chemistry, and data science. Good data management practices are essential—they enhance transparency, enable peer review, and empower scientists to share, reanalyze, or integrate datasets, spurring further advancements.