Digital curation toolbox

This page contains some of the documents that have been produced by the Wellcome Library to explain how we work with born digital material and the processes of digital curation. You are encouraged to read these documents and to use them to support for your own digital management activities.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Digital donation - depositing your digital material in the Library. (FAQ 1)
• Preservation and life cycle management - sets out how we plan to preserve digital material. (FAQ 2)
• Validation - explains one way of ensuring that what is transferred to the Library hasn't inadvertently been changed or become corrupted. (FAQ 3)
• Material transfer - how material can be transferred to the Library safely. (FAQ 4)
• The digital transfer process - what we do with your material and how we work with you. (FAQ 5)
• Working with digital material - for staff on of dealing with donated digital archival material (FAQ 7)
• What do we accept? - material for digital donation. (FAQ 8)
• Digital wills - some points to consider about maintaining access to material you have created. (FAQ 9)
• Digitisation projects - sets out some of the basic issues to consider when considering digitisation. (FAQ 15)
• Glossary - some basic definitions of terms we use.

Digital Curation Workflow [PPT 208KB]

This workflow sets out the steps in working with a Creator/Donor/Lender/Producer to bring born digital material into the Wellcome Library. It roughly follows ISO 20652 - CCSDS 'Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard', but has been adapted/simplified for use by the Wellcome Library. It covers the steps up to ingestion into a repository. The original document is available [PDF 485KB]

Requirements for a Digital Object Repository [Word 570KB]

In 2008 the Library released a set of requirements for a digital object repository. The aim was to provide the Wellcome Library with a digital object repository system, for which born digital material created or acquired by the Library could be permanently held, managed, and from which that material could be made available to users.