Programme

Monday 6 December

A programme of pre-conference workshops to be held at the Chicago Mart Plaza. See workshops link for more information.

Tuesday 7 December

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.

Wednesday 8 December

The second day will feature the accepted papers presented in themed parallel sessions.
Key Speakers at the conference:-

• Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre
• Christine Borgman, Presidential Chair & Professor of Information Studies, University of California.
• Sheila Corrall, Professor of Librarianship & Information Management, University of Sheffield
• Stephen Friend, President and CEO Sage Bionetworks
• Chris Lintott, Principal Investigator,University of Oxford & Adler Planetarium
• Clifford Lynch,  Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
• MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries.
• Barend Mons,Scientific Director, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre & Biosemantics Group, Leiden University Medical Centre
• John Unsworth, Dean and Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.
• Antony Williams, Vice President of Strategic Development, ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry

PDF of Current draft programme