***Apologies for cross-posting***
Registration is open for the 5th International Digital Curation
Conference "Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and
Diversity"
2-4 December 2009. See: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/
The IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals,
organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains
involved in curating data for e-science and e-research.
The DCC will be hosting a workshop programme on 2 December followed by a
Pre-Conference Drinks Reception at the Natural History Museum. The main
conference will open on 3 December with a keynote speech from Professor
Douglas Kell, Chief Executive of the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences
Research Council (BBSRC). Other key speakers will include Professor Ed
Seidal, National Science Foundation, Cliff Lynch, Coalition for
Networked Information and Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing Group.
The first day of the conference will incorporate an interactive
afternoon for posters and demos, followed by a Symposium entitled
"Citizen Science: Data Challenges" led by Richard Cable, BBC Lab UK.
The second day will be made up of peer-reviewed papers in themed
sessions covering Disciplinary and Institutional Challenges,
Practitioner Experience, Metadata, Software Preservation & Managing
Risk.
Full programme details are available online:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/programme/
Registration will close on 20 November 2009. Places are limited so
please register now at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2009/
Many thanks
Sarah Jones
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Preservation Researcher
(HATII & Digital Curation Centre)
Tel: +44(0)141 3303549
Skype: sarah.jones.ahds
Web:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/staff/sarahjones/#d.en.116142
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