Registration is now open for the 14th International Digital Curation Conference, "Collaborations and Partnerships: Addressing the Big Digital Challenges Together", to be held at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia. Early bird rates are available. CNI is very proud to have been a supporting organization for this excellent conference since its inception.

IDCC is a leading conference on digital curation and Research Data Management, regularly attracting around 250 delegates from all over the world.

The main theme of the conference will be collaborations and partnerships in the field of digital curation and preservation. How do they develop and evolve across the professional, disciplinary, institutional, regional, national, and international levels? And how are such collaborations supporting the advancement of digital curation and preservation practices?

The main conference programme will take place on the 5th and 6th of February and will include keynote lectures by Christine Kenneally and Patricia Brennan, and a live conversation between myself and Nancy McGovern. Workshops will be held on the 4th of February. A new addition to the programme will be the IDCC Unconference, to be held on the 7th of February, an event driven by delegates, on topics of their choice.

The UK Digital Curation Center (DCC) is partnering with the University of Melbourne to take IDCC to Australia for the first time. We are looking forward to new perspectives, new audiences, new partnerships.

More information and the link to registration can be found at

www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc19

Hope to see some of you there.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI