On December 9, 2010, in conjunction with the International Data Curation Conference in Chicago, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and the Purdue Universities Libraries organized an IMLS-funded Data Curation Research Summitt. I had an opportunity to participate in this event, which covered a good deal of ground, including some focus on the interplay between scholarly publishing and data curation. The final report from this meeting is now available at

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/28355

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI