Digital long-term preservation
With digital long-term preservation, we take on the task of ensuring the preservation of digital information over the long term and safeguarding its usability for researchers through adequate measures both now and in the future.
What is digital curation?
Digital curation addresses the entire life cycle of digital data, from their creation in the scientific work process to their processing, documentation and publication, all the way through to sustainable data maintenance in the digital archive.
Challenges for data curation
Digital curation and long-term preservation have special significance for the handling of research data because:
- The production of digital data is constantly increasing.
- At the same time, the development cycles of hardware and software are getting shorter.
- Data storage media get old.
- File formats become obsolete.
- The various data requirements are changing on an ongoing basis.
Prudent data management and careful planning of preservation measures are therefore important for ensuring that digital information and documents remain accessible for research also in future.
Digitised holdings
The content of our digital collections and archives must also be safeguarded for the long term. The ETH Data Archive offers the appropriate solution for ensuring this.
Manuals, fact sheets
Wiki Research data management and digital curationRelated Links
News
Insights into research data management practices at ETH Zurich
A recent ETH Library survey from 2023 reveals key challenges in research data management (RDM), highlighting the need for support in selecting metadata standards and FAIR repositories, and emphasising the role of data stewards.
Whose data is it, anyway? Research data management today.
Under the motto “whose data is it, anyway?”, the ETH Library and Scientific IT Services will be celebrating their love for data from 10 to 14 February 2025 and jointly providing insight into research data management.
Data Stewards and their emerging role in research data management
In the next 17:15 Colloquium by the ETH Library, Lars Schöbitz will present the role of ‘data stewards’ and their important function in research data management.