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6th International Digital Curation Conference
Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the
data decade
6 - 8 December 2010, Chicago, USA
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The call for papers for IDCC10 is open until 23 July 2010:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/papers
Submission information can be found at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/submissions
Presenting at the conference offers you the chance to be part of the
growing curation community:
- To share good practice, skills and knowledge transfer
- To influence and inform future digital curation policy & practice
- To test out curation resources and toolkits
- To explore collaborative possibilities and partnerships
- To engage with curation educators and trainers
The draft programme is now available at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme
Keynote and Plenary speakers include:
*Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre
*Christine Borgman, Presidential Chair & Professor of Information
Studies, University of California Los Angeles
*Sheila Corrall, Professor of Librarianship & Information Management,
University of Sheffield
*Stephen Friend, President and CEO Sage Bionetworks
*Chris Lintott, Principal Investigator, Galaxy Zoo, University of Oxford
*Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
*MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries
*Barend Mons, WikiProteins, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
*John Unsworth, Dean and Professor Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Antony Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development, ChemSpider
at the Royal Society of Chemistry
Registration will open on 1 September 2010.
Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee:
Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC),
Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the DCC, Allen Renear and Melissa
Cragin from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
(GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Clifford Lynch, Executive
Director of the Coalition for Networked Information.
Martin Donnelly
Curation Research Officer
Digital Curation Centre
University of Edinburgh
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2714
Mob: +44 (0)7853 261 952
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
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