CNI Director looks forward to 'historic' first international conference on digital curation
Dr Clifford Lynch, Director of the US-based Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and a keynote speaker at the upcoming international digital curation conference, today described the conference as an ‘historic’ first conference. With scientists and researchers across the UK and internationally generating increasingly vast amounts of digital data, there is the growing need, says Dr Lynch, for adequate policies and procedures to cope with the ‘ever-more-critical issues’ of the management, curation and preservation of digital data.
Hosted by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the conference – to be held in Bath from the 29th to the 30th September – is attracting speakers and delegates both from the UK and abroad, drawn by the opportunity to discuss a wide range of themes and issues, both practical and theoretical, surrounding the curation of our digital research record. Dr. Lynch, a member of the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, says that it is the connection of theory and practice that will mark this conference as an event of importance to the international digital curation community. He says: ‘I'm looking forward to the opportunity to situate and connect these issues within the broader contexts of scholarly practice, scholarly communication, and digital preservation.’
Other speakers at the conference include Graham Cameron, Associate Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute (a keynote speaker), Caroline Arms of the Library of Congress and Professor Alex Szalay, of John Hopkins University. Full details of the 1stInternational Digital Curation Conference .
Funded by Jisc and the e-science core programme, the Digital Curation Centre, was set up in 2004 in order to provide a national focus for research and development into digital curation issues. Click here for further information on the DCC.