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#idcc14

We have had an amazing response to our call for posters and are now able to offer a preview of those that will be on display at IDCC14.
The posters cover a range of topics from cyberinfrastructure to curating research assets, DOIs  to data management planning, data curation education to enhancing reuse and data across disciplines from soil science to social science and from the Arctic to Korea.

With only 5 weeks to go until the 9th International Digital Curation Conference, the third in our series of preview interviews with keynote speaker, Dr Fran Berman, the Edward G. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is now online.

The Peer review process has been completed and details of all the accepted papers have now been added to the programme.
A total of eight research papers and 25 practice papers have been accepted for IDCC14. Both the number of papers submitted and the standard of content has been very high.
The papers cover a range of themes. Many of the practice papers will focus on pilot projects and lessons learned within disciplines and institutions as well as nationally, whilst the research papers will cover key areas including data reuse, data management and citizen science.

The workshop programme for IDCC14 has now been published and registration is open.
The workshops will take place on Monday 24 and Thursday 27 February and will be held in the conference hotel.
The programme covers a range of very interesting and relevant topics including

Registration is now open for IDCC14.
Full details and a link to the registration form can be found at Registration & Accommodation
The draft programme is also now available, giving details of more precise timings and a preview of the confirmed speakers.

We are currently working on an exciting line-up of speakers for IDCC14 and will be publishing the full programme shortly, but in the meantime are delighted to announce details of our confirmed speakers.

The Call for Papers has now been released for the 9th International Digital Curation Conference which will be held in San Francisco from 24-27 February 2014.
The theme for the conference is
Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business and society.