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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.

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Contact Info

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

G. Bakou 17
GR-115 24 Athens Greece

T: +30 210 6990522 (X. 112)
F: +30 210 6990552
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.

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News

Experts Forum on Scholarly Activity Process Modeling. 10/06/2010

The Expert Forum forms part of DCU's work within the conceptual workpackage of DARIAH (WP8), based on a combination of scholarly information behaviour literature survey with qualitative research on how arts and humanities researchers interact with information. It contributes to the development of a process model of scholarly information work, and also feed into the specification of an object model for information resources and scholarly objects pertinent to humanities research, an important factor in determining digital infrastructure requirements for scholarship.