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DCC Digital Curation Manual: Call for authors and topics
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is working to identify and share expertise
and best practices regarding the creation, curation, and reuse of digital
information over time. A key objective for achieving this goal is the
creation and maintenance of the DCC Digital Curation Manual. The Digital
Curation Manual is intended to be a community-driven resource - from the
selection of instalment topics through to authorship and peer review.
Individual instalments are authored by leading experts in the field and
cover a range of issues relating to digital curation. The Digital Curation
Manual is designed to assist data creators, curators and re-users to better
understand the challenges they face and the roles they play in creating,
managing and preserving their digital information over time. Each instalment
places the topic in the context of digital curation by providing an
introduction to the subject, suggestions for best practice, and by providing
real-life examples of the topic in action.
We are currently seeking submissions from potential authors for existing
abstracts or for new topics. Authors will be remunerated for their
contribution and will retain copyright for their work while granting the DCC
licence to re-package the instalment as part of an overall Curation Manual
or for other dissemination purposes within the DCC.
A list of current instalments and proposed new topics and abstracts are
available on our website
(http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-manual/chapters/). If you are
interested in authoring an instalment or would like to suggest a new topic,
please contact me with a short proposal (see attached template) at
[log in to unmask] by June 1st 2009.
Please feel free to distribute this email to any colleagues who may be
interested.
Best regards,
Joy
Joy Davidson
DCC Acting Associate Director
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
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