6th International Digital Curation Conference

"Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade"

6 December, 2010 - 8 December, 2010
Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago

Overview

Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital data throughout the lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship.

This year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 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 will be 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).

The Pre-Conference Drinks Reception will be held in the hotel on the evening of 6 December and the Conference dinner will be held on the evening of 7 December at the Chicago Cultural Centre 78 E. Washington St  Chicago IL 60602.

Registration for the conference is now open.

Conference Prices:

$350 - Associates

$400 - Non-associates

A reduced rate of $150 will be available for a limited number of postgraduate and postdoctoral research students. Please complete registration up to payment page, and fax a letter from your university supervisor verifying your status to Maeve Reilly, (217) 244-3302. (U.S. number).

The DCC is funded by

Joint Information Systems Committee