Curate and preserve
You have invested a lot of time and effort in creating your data, so keep it safe. To ensure the care and preservation of your data, learn about:
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Long-Term Storage and Preservation
Guidance and information on looking after your data so that it may be found, understood and used in the future. -
Selection: Choosing What to Keep
Guidance on how to make good decisions about what is really worth keeping and what can be safely discarded. -
Digital Repositories
Find out how to work with a repository to protect, preserve, archive and share your electronic files indefinitely. -
Open Access and Data Availability after
Research
Guidance on the best ways to collaborate and share your data.
The following cartoon illustrates the value of good data management and provides a few key best practices (produced by Digital Preservation Europe):