DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks aims to provide a single point-of-access to a range of standards and specifications related to the curation and preservation of access to digital material. The DCC DIFFUSE Standards Registry provides up-to-date information about current and emerging standards and specifications, as well as information about those which have been superseded or which are no longer maintained, but may still be in use. The project is one of the resources being delivered during Phase Two of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) which is funded by the UK JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) until March 2010.
DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks builds on the achievements of the DIFFUSE Project which ran from 1 February 2000 until 31 January 2003, and was funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) [external] Programme. Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) [external] at the University of Glasgow secured the right to reuse the DIFFUSE data following the end of the original project to ensure that this valuable resource remained accessible to data curators over time.
Where content is identical, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) ratified standards will take priority over those ratified by national standards bodies.