Event: 6th International Digital Curation Conference

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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

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 

Key speakers to 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.