Digital Collections and Curation Services | Duke University Libraries

Duke University Libraries — Coronavirus Response

Duke University Libraries will continue to provide online consulting, services, and resources during the Coronavirus response, but our library buildings will remain closed until further notice.

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

From Our Blog:

April 3, 2020

DUCC, TUCC, and the origins of digital computing in North Carolina

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March 27, 2020

Library Crisis: The Late Bronze Age Collapse of 1177 BC and the Coronavirus of 2020 AD

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March 17, 2020

Sharing data and research in a time of global pandemic

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