Conference Report: Curating Research: e-Merging New Roles and Responsibilities in the European Landscape
17 April 2009, The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands
1. Summary of issues relevant for DPC members
- Training is popular but what sort of training will be most effective: what will drive down costs and support our work best?
- Considerations of scale: what is the right size solution to our digital preservation challenges? Do we want lots of small DP facilities or a small number of large ones?
- How do we collaborate without undermining institutions?
- There would appear to be a lot of policy development which is an important change from a decade ago: but how do we assess the value of these emerging policies and how do we know if they are being applied?
- There is still a policy gap. There are some high level aspirations in the UNESCO Charter and some very detailed guides, but a gap in between. What would be our
- golden rules for creating digital data?