Quickstart Guide

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Learning about data curation

• The Portage Data Curation Primer provides a two-page introduction to the what, why, who, and how of data curation.
• The UK’s Digital Curation Centre’s Introduction to Curation contains a group of briefing papers that offer an introduction to curation.
• The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model provides an overview of data curation activities in the context of stages of the research data lifecycle.

Workflows, checklists, and guides

• The US-based Data Curation Network’s Curation Workflow page offers a number of valuable data curation materials, including a description of their CURATED model (with downloadable checklists), and their data curation primers, which provide detailed guidance for curating a wide variety of data types.
• Dryad’s Opening Files wiki

Corresponding with researchers

• The Dryad Templates for Correspondence wiki page provides a variety of templates for data curators to use when communicating with data submitters.

Learn more | Get training

• Fundamentals of Research Data Curation: An introductory webinar by the Society of American Archivists.
• Research Data MANTRA: Comprehensive RDM training provided by EDINA and Data Library, University of Edinburgh in association with the UK Data Archive, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), and Distributed Data Curation Center at the Purdue University Libraries.