6th International Digital Curation Conference

6th International Digital Curation Conference 2010

Title: “Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade”.
6 - 8 December 2010, Chicago, USA.

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 (as from 19/04/10), 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.

The first day of the conference will look at how data curation practices are evolving and spreading throughout the disciplines and what institutional structures and communities are needed to help support these developments. The programme will include invited speakers in plenary sessions together with an interactive afternoon, including a “Community Space” for posters, demonstrations and informal meetings and a Symposium.

On the second day papers will be presented in two tracks of themed parallel sessions: a Research Track, with papers presenting research results, and a Practice Track, with papers describing experiences with tools and practices.