Digital Curation Service
The Digital Curation Centre's (DCC) Curation Lifecycle Model - The DCC's Curation Lifecycle Model provides high-level overview of the stages required for successful curation of digital content.
Visit the DCC website for more information.
Manchester eScholar Services supports the self archiving of metadata-only and metadata plus full-text records by individual researchers affiliated with the University of Manchester. Researchers use the My eScholar Service to self-archive their work.
The My eScholar Service is designed to make it as easy as possible for researchers to self-archive a record of their scholarly work. As such individuals can choose to deposit as little or as much metadata describing their work as they wish. Depositing a full-text version of their work is also optional. This model can result in records having different amount of metadata, both in terms of quantity and quality. The Manchester eScholar Digital Curation Service aims to improve the quality of records by updating and amending deposited records with validated metadata. Furthermore, where copyright arrangements allow, the Curation Service will seek to enhance records by attaching a full-text version e.g. PDF of the appropriate content.
Our digital curation activities include:
- ensuring organisational and researcher descriptive data is inline with University held records,
- updating University organisational affiliations of registered researchers and their deposited items of scholarly work,
- adding key metadata to records e.g. date published, pagination, digital object identifier, abstract, ISSN/ISBN,
- updating records that are marked as in-press or forthcoming,
- resolving formatting issues around lists of authors and editors,
- resolving journal and publisher name variants,
- identifying publisher copyright and open access requirements,
- adding and maintaining citation and usage metrics to records,
- sourcing and attaching a copyright cleared version of full-text,
- de-duplicating records
Where possible Manchester eScholar Services will contact researchers when notable changes are made to their records. In particular, this applies to sourcing and attaching full-text content.
Manchester eScholar Services reserves the right to make changes to all deposited records inline with existing publisher-author copyright arrangements, the University's requirements and its operational policies.
Our digital curation activities form part of a perpetual programme of improvements to existing and recently added records. The Manchester eScholar Support Team will undertake specific curation tasks on request, where resources and priorities permit.
Contact us to make a request.