There's a draft program available for the International Data Curation Conference, and registration is now open. It should be an excellent event, and CNI is delighted to be a co-sponsor again this year. I hope to see many of you there.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

"Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society" 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA

Register now for IDCC14 http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14/ The programme will open on Monday 24 February with the Pre-Conference Drinks reception. The main conference will run from Tuesday 25 February - Wednesday 26 February. The draft programme is now available at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14/programme. A workshop programme will be published in November.

The Call for Papers will close on Monday 28 October www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc14/call-papers

Sent on behalf of IDCC14 Programme Committee Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley - Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Liz Lyon - Associate Director of the DCC, Patricia Cruse, Director of the University of California Curation Center (UC3) and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Bridget Robinson Information Officer DCC Community Development UKOLN, University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY Tel: + 44 (0) 1225 383343 Email: b.r.robinson@ukoln.ac.uk Web site:http:www.dcc.ac.uk