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Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. IDCC brings together those who create information, those who curate and manage it, those who use it and those who research and teach about curation processes.

This Web page provides an overview of the outputs of projects in JISC's Managing Research Data programme. It includes links to project websites, how to guides, data management planning tools and guidance, case studies, reports, and training materials.

The third edition (published in May 2011) of the UK Data Archive's guide to best practice for researchers. Topics covered include: why and how to share data; data management planning; documenting, formatting, and storing data; ethics and consent; and copyright.

Good practice in data management is one of the core areas of research integrity, or the responsible conduct of research. This site provides further insight to some of the stages involved in research data management, and the facilities and services available to help, both within the University and from external providers.

The HFS (Hierarchical File Server) is an Oxford University centrally funded service providing data backup and long-term archive services to senior members, postgraduates and staff.

The project's overall aim was to scope the requirements, including underlying infrastructure and interoperability, for digital repositories services to store, disseminate and preserve research data generated at Oxford.