The Digital Collections and Curation Services (DCCS) department creates, publishes, and preserves digital resources for use in scholarship, publications, personal research and other engaging academic and non-academic pursuits. Members of the department serve as a bridge between campus data providers and Duke University Libraries preservation systems, whether it be through digitization, data management or other preservation services. The department is engaged in strategic, cross-departmental projects and programs such as the Digital Collections Program, the Research Data Curation Program and other Library-related digital preservation activities.
Services and Areas of Expertise
- Duke Digital Collections
- FADGI compliant digitization services primarily focussed on library collections for still image, audio tape and video tape formats.
- Non-MARC metadata governance, consultation, and support
- Multispectral Imaging (MSI)
- Research Data publication and preservation in collaboration with Data and Visualization Services department
- Preservation repository ingest consultation
Notable Accomplishments: FY2018
- Provide access to over 140,000 digital Duke Library items online
- Curate 20 data sets in support of Duke Scholars
- Metadata support for over 16,000 scholarly publications (including electronic theses and dissertations)
- Produce over 250,000 digital files through onsite and vendor-based digitization
Our Staff

Vacant
Digitization Specialist - Still Image
Learn More
- Digital Production Center
Located in Perkins Library 013 (same level as the Link): /about/digital-production-center - Multispectral Imaging: /about/depts/dccs/msi
- Duke Digital Repository: https://repository.duke.edu/
- Research Data Repository: https://research.repository.duke.edu/
- Scholarly Publications: https://scholarworks.duke.edu and https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace
- Digital Collections Documentation: coming soon
- Research Data Curation Program: /data/data-management
- Metadata Documentation:
https://duldev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDRDOC/pages/30020277/Metadata+Documentation