4th Digital Curation Conference: Call for papers

The call is now open at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2008/.

"The first day of the conference will focus on three key topics:

• Radical sharing, new ways of doing science e.g. large scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wikis, blogs, social networks, visualisations and immersive environments
• Sustainability of curation
• Legal issues including privacy, confidentiality and consent, intellectual property rights and provenance

"The second day of the conference will be dedicated to research and development and will feature peer-reviewed papers in themed parallel sessions."

There are several main themes:

• Research Data Infrastructures (covering research data across all disciplines)
• Curation and e-Research
• Sustainability: balancing costs and value of digital curation and preservation
• Disciplinary and Inter-disciplinary Curation Challenges
• Challenging types of content
• Legal Issues
• Capacity Building

Key dates:

• Submission of papers for peer-review: 25 July 2008
• Submission of abstracts poster/demos/workshops for peer-review: 25 July 2008
• Notification of authors: 19 September 2008
• Final papers deadline: 14 November 2008
• Submission of poster PDFs: 14 November 2008

We need good papers, so please get your thinking caps on!