I wanted to share the draft program for the International Digital Curation Conference, which is now available; see the announcement below. The call for papers is still open for another two weeks.

CNI is again proud to be a co-sponsor of this important meeting. I’ll be doing a talk at the end of the first day, and I hope to see many CNI-announce & CNI News subscribers at the meeting.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Draft Programme and Call for Papers
7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)
Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape 5-7 December 2011, Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, UK
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The draft programme for IDCC11 is now available:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/programme

The Call for Papers is still open – closing date for submissions of papers is 25 July 2011. Possible topic areas arising from our conference theme include: *Lessons learned from the inter-disciplinary use of open data: examples of enablers, barriers and success stories
*Curation of mixed data collections, with open and sensitive or private content
*Gathering evidence for benefits of data sharing
*Building capacity for the effective management, sharing and reuse of open data
*Scale issues in the management of sensitive data
*Tensions between maintaining quality and openness
*Linked data, open data, closed data and provenance
*Technical and organisational solutions for data security
*Developing new metrics for open data
*Ethical issues and personal data
*Legislation and open data

Call for Papers http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers Submission template:http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/submissions

Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee:
Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley, Director and Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the DCC and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI.
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Bridget Robinson
DCC Community Development
UKOLN, University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343
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Materials from the December 2010 International Digital Curation Conference are now available online; these include presentation materials, which are linked to the programme, and video of the main talks.

All the links are collected here:

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference

As I mentioned in the December 2010 CNI Conversations, two of the sessions I found most compelling were those by Chris Lintott of Galaxy Zoo about the design of systems to support citizen scientist engagement, and the really frightening talk by Anthony Williams about quality and consistency issues across reference and research support databases in chemistry.  There is video of both of these sessions available through Vimeo.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

CNI is again co-sponsoring this event.
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“Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade” 6-8 December 2010, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

This year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

The Programme Committee is co-chaired by Kevin Ashley , Director of the Digital Curation Centre, 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 (CNI).

To register please visit:
http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=851854

More information:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference

Below is the call for papers for this December’s International Digital Curation Conference, which will be held in Chicago. CNI is once again proud to be a co-sponsor for this meeting, which has become a major international venue for the data curation community.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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IDCC10 will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).

The Programme Committee invites the submission of papers that reflect developing trends in curation
and address the issues of growing the curation community to meet the challenges of the next decade.
Papers can be research or practice based.
Of particular interest:
* How is the digital curation community growing?
* How are data curation skills embedded in the curriculum?
* How curators are deployed in practice?
* What are the new research and development results in data curation?

All papers accepted for the conference will be published in the International Journal of Digital Curation
(http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc)

Full details of the Call for Papers can be found at: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2010/call-for-papers/

Submissions will be accepted from 1 May 2010

Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee:
Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley, Director Designate 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.

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Bridget Robinson
DCC Community Development
UKOLN, University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343
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6th International Digital Curation Conference
Chicago, 6-8 December 2010
www.dcc.ac.uk