
Research Data Management
Our RDM services assist researchers with organising, managing, curating and sharing their research data, to facilitate its preservation and access for present and future use.
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Digital Scholarship
Most of us studying, teaching or researching are digital scholars. Why? It is because we engage with digital technologies when we do our work.
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Data Stewards
The UCT Data Stewards and champions is based on a community of practice approach where members have a shared domain of interest, a sense of community and a shared practice.
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Digital Preservation
Digital Library Services offer a curation service for digitisation projects undertaken by UCT Libraries to ensure that digital collections are created, organised, documented, preserved and made accessible.
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What we do?
We provide Digital Scholarship and Research Data Services to UCT, including the following:
- Specialist Digitisation services for Digital Preservation and Online Showcasing;
- Data Curation services, supporting good practices in Research Data Management (RDM);
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Consulting for Staff & Postgraduate Students.
We advocate for Open Science, to make research, teaching and learning at UCT more efficient, collaborative and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). On this mission, we are hosting a growing community of Data Stewards at UCT.