Deadline extended for papers for IDCC10
We're pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC10 has been extended by 2 weeks. The Call will now close at 1700 BST (that's 1600 UTC, 1800 CEST, 12pm EDT, 9am PDT) on Monday 9 August 2010.
Submissions can be in the form of an abstract (maximum of 1000 words) for practice based papers or a full paper (maximum 12 pages) for research based papers. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will provide limited travel awards for graduate students whose papers are accepted for the conference.
Presenting at the conference offers you the chance to:-
- Share good practice, skills and knowledge transfer
- Influence and inform future digital curation policy & practice
- Test out curation resources and toolkits
- Explore collaborative possibilities and partnerships
- Engage educators and trainers with regard to developing digital curation skills for the future
Full details and a submission template are on the DCC site as is the draft programme.The Call for Poster/Demos will close on 1 September 2010; conference registration will open the same day. (On behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee: Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley - Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Liz Lyon - Associate Director of the DCC, Allen Renear and Melissa Cragin - Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI. )
Kevin Ashley
As Director, Kevin maps new territory as the DCC embarks on its third phase of evolution (2010 - 2013), where the accent is on enabling capacity and capability amongst the research community in matters of digital curation.
Previously, as Head of Digital Archives at the University of London Computer Centre (1997 - 2010), he was responsible for a multi-disciplinary group that provided services related to the preservation and reusability of digital resources on behalf of other organisations, as well as programmes of research, development and training. His group operated NDAD (the National Digital Archive of Datasets) for The National Archives of the UK for over twelve years, capturing, preserving, describing and releasing government data as part of TNA's collections. As a past or present member of numerous advisory and steering groups, including JISC's Infrastructure and Resources Committee, JIIE, the Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group, the Advisory Council for ERPANET and the Archives Hub Steering Committee, Kevin has contributed widely to the research information community.
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Contact:
- kevin.ashley@ed.ac.uk