UKOLN at the University of Bath is a partner in this major new initiative funded by the JISC and the eScience Core Programme. The Digital Curation Centre has funding of 1.3m pounds sterling a year to address the challenge of securing the future of digital data in a collaboration between the Universities and the Research Councils. Led by the University of Edinburgh, the Digital Curation Centre will be run by a consortium of four partner institutions: the University of Edinburgh (Informatics, Law, Information Services and leading research institutes) and the University of Glasgow (HATII and Information Services), which together host the National eScience Centre; UKOLN, at the University of Bath; the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC – which operates the Rutherford and Daresbury Laboratories).
The Centre will have an active Research Programme funded by the EPSRC and will also provide JISC-funded development, advisory services and dissemination and outreach to the wider community.