The following sites are worth monitoring (the details of each site were taken from the sites):

• 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
• 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.
• Research Data Management @ UNSW
• 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
• 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
• Geospatial Data Preservation: The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is a project of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), which is working with a national network of partners on a strategy for preserving digital information for use in the future.
• DPHEP: Study group on data preservation and long term analysis in high energy physics – High Energy Physics experiments initiate with this Study Group provides a reflection on data persistency and long term analysis in order to get a common vision on these issues and create a multi-experiment dynamics for further reference.