Key Speakers announced for IDCC11

IDCC11 will feature opening and closing keynotes from a panel of distinguished contributors. Ewan McIntosh, Founder and CEO of NoTosh, will speak on the subject "Public data opportunities". Professor Philip E Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology will give a keynote to open the second day of the conference entitled "Open data driving scholarly communications in 2020". The closing keynote address of the conference, "Models, Science, Openness", will be given by Professor Stephen Emmott, Head of Computational Science at Microsoft Research.

The programme will also include invited speakers in plenary sessions together with an interactive afternoon, "Community Space" for posters, demonstrations and informal meetings and a symposium on Personal Genomics. Research tracks will allow for presentation and discussion of peer-reviewed papers covering all types of digital curation research and scholarship. Practice tracks allow for presentation of experiences of all sorts in institutions, research domains or regions.

There will be a programme of pre- and post-conference workshops.

Registration will open in September but prior to this you can ensure that you are kept fully up to date with all our conference news by registering your interest on the conference webpage

Remember you still have time in which to respond to IDCC11 Call for Papers. The closing date for the submission of papers is 25 July 2011. Submissions will be considered for either the Research or the Practice Track. There is a separate track for the submission of posters and demonstrations with a closing date of 2 September 2011.