I’m undertaking a piece of work with Monica Duke and Magdalena Getler of the DCC, and we need your help!  We’re looking at which DCC-developed digital curation tools are used by the MRD02 projects.  This is a happy case of our interests overlapping in a Venn diagram-type way: I’m interested in which digital curation tools, DCC or not, are used (or considered but rejected) by the projects.  Monica and Magda are interested in the use of DCC tools by the MRD02 projects as well as by other people.

There is a list of the DCC tools developed to date at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/tools-and-applications, and there is a freshly-revised catalogue of digital curation tools developed by people other than the DCC at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/external/tools-services (although please note this latter link is currently still in development – it should be finalised by the week commencing 30 April 2012).

We plan to look at the project plans, blogs and so on to see where digital curation tools are mentioned.  After this initial perusal, the plan is currently for DCC to send out a brief survey to projects where we don’t already have a full picture from their blogging (and this may also be a way of helping to get the new RDMTrain02 projects involved), asking for information on their use of DCC tools.

If you’re on one of the projects and keen to contribute, it would be immensely helpful to me if you could let me know which tools for digital curation (DCC-developed or not) you have considered using.  If you’re going ahead with use of them, please let me know what you think of them, and if you’ve decided against use of a particular tool, please let me know why.  I welcome this feedback by email to laura.molloy AT glasgow.ac.uk, or in the comments below.  Thanks!