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The Digital Curation Unit

The mission of the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), established in 2007, is to conduct research, develop technologies and applications, provide services and training, and act as a national focus point in the field of digital curation. The DCU adopts a multidisciplinary approach in order to serve a broad range of constituencies such as e-government, organisational records, e-repositories and digital heritage.

Contact Info

Digital Curation Unit,
Institute for the Management of Information Systems,
Athena Research Centre

Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou
GR-151 25 Maroussi, Greece

T: +30 210 6875425
F: +30 210 6856804
E: contact@dcu.gr
 

Key challenges and strategies

The grand challenge for digital curation research, according to the viewpoint adopted by the DCU, is to develop the conceptual and technological tools necessary for maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current and future use, through the active questioning,dynamic co-evolution and adequate knowledge representation of its epistemic and pragmatic content and context.
 

News

Classical studies facing digital research infrastructures: from practice to requirements

01/07/2011
Agiatis Benardou will give a paper under the title "Classical studies facing digital research infrastructures: from practice to requirements"

Challenges, outcomes and remarks on information practices and user needs in the humanities. The cases of the EU projects DARIAH and EHRI

14/05/2011
Agiatis Benardou participated in technothings meeting for young researchers. The title of her paper was: Challenges, outcomes and remarks on information practices and user needs in the humanities. The cases of the EU projects DARIAH and EHRI

CARARE Annual report published

28/03/2011
The annual report for CARARE has been published and is available online. The report describes the project's achievements and results at the end of the first year.