3rd International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group Meeting

Following our initial DCC workshop on Developing an International Curation and Preservation Training and Education Roadmap held in May 2008 in Washington D.C., a working group has been set up to identify opportunities to progress international data curation training and education development.

A second meeting was held in Edinburgh in December 2008 where participants focused on advancing the identification of core educational requirements based on the initial work done by Professor Helen Tibbo and her team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read a report from the Second Workshop of the IDEA [external] in the March/April 2009 issue of D-Lib Magazine.

This third working group meeting is being held prior to the DigCCurr 2009 conference [external]. The focus for this meeting will be on small group discussions of issues related to data curation education identified at the December 2008 meeting. Following discussions, each group will report back to larger group, offering insight and recommendations for responding to these issues.

Participation in this event will be by invitation only. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Joy Davidson with your details.