Digital Preservation for Researchers - teaching modules (Cambridge)

PrePARe teaching modules in digital preservation

Authors: PrePARe project team

The JISC Managing Research Data Programme-funded PrePARe project ran from 1 Nov 2011 to 31 July 2012.  It aimed to encourage researchers to take an interest and responsibility in digital preservation of their research outputs. Training materials in digital preservation have been designed to slot into existing training courses on related areas, such as Information Literacy and reference management. Five short modules provide an introduction to why digital preservation matters, and cover the issues of safe storage of digital materials, documentation and metadata, data sharing and re-use and data management planning, to think about these issues early in the research process. The resources consist of a series of slides for each module, and a guide on how the resources can be used, including suggested discussion questions and script for use with the slides.

Published: 30 July 2012, by University of Cambridge

Keywords: open access, repositories, storage, data management planning, data reuse, data sharing, research data, metadata, documentation, data management, digital preservation 

Licence: Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales