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:

• 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):