I wanted to share the draft programme fo the International Digital Curation Conference, which is now avaialble; see the announcement below. The call for papers is still open for another two weeks.

CNI is again proud to be a co-sponsor of this important meeting. I'll be doing a talk at the end of the first day, and I hope to see many CNI-announce subscribers at the meeting.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Draft Programme and Call for Papers 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape 5-7 December 2011, Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, UK

The draft programme for IDCC11 is now available: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/programme

The Call for Papers is still open - closing date for submissions of papers is 25 July 2011. Possible topic areas arising from our conference theme include: Lessons learned from the inter-disciplinary use of open data: examples of enablers, barriers and success stories Curation of mixed data collections, with open and sensitive or private content Gathering evidence for benefits of data sharing Building capacity for the effective management, sharing and reuse of open data Scale issues in the management of sensitive data Tensions between maintaining quality and openness Linked data, open data, closed data and provenance Technical and organisational solutions for data security Developing new metrics for open data Ethical issues and personal data *Legislation and open data

Call for Papers http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers Submission template:http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/submissions

Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee: Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley, Director and Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the DCC and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI.

Bridget Robinson DCC Community Development UKOLN, University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343