The following sites are worth monitoring:

• African Open Science Platform
• CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science)
• CoreTrustSeal
• Digital Curation Centre: the DCC is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management across the UK’s higher education community
• DIRISA (Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa)
• IDIA (Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy)
• NSTF (National Science and Technology Forum)
• Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• Re3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories)
• UK Data Archive: experts in the areas of acquiring, curating and providing access to data and a designated Place of Deposit for The National Archives
• World Data System (ICSU)

Other Helpful websites

• Digital Curation Exchange:  this site is designed to provide an environment in which you can engage with a rich digital curation community. More than just a resting place for materials, DCE serves as a starting point for discussions on topics about and for digital curation.
• Keeping Research Data Safe: Cost/benefit studies, tools, and methodologies focussing on long-lived data
• e-Science Portal  for New England Librarians: a librarian’s link to e-Science resources and the e-Science community blog
• Research Data Management @ UNSW