From the 1-3 December 2008, Edinburgh plays host to the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, whose theme is ‘Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?’

Digital curation conference programme

The diverse programme features workshops and keynote speakers on topics ranging from:

• sustainability issues
• Curation Lifecycle Model
• 'data curation as risk-management', with an insight into the DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment ) toolkit

Day 1: The first day of the conference will focus on three key topics:

• Radical sharing, new ways of doing science e.g. large scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wikis, blogs, social networks, visualisations and immersive environments
• Sustainability of curation
• Legal issues including privacy, confidentiality and consent, intellectual property rights and provenance

Day 2: The innovations possible through radical data sharing such as the Open Notebook Science experiment will be discussed, with day two offering a ‘minute madness’ session of poster presentations.

About the Edinburgh Digital Curation Centre

Edinburgh’s Digital Curation Centre exists to help store, manage and protect digital items from technological obsolescence and from the fragility of digital media, to preserve long-term access and promote best practice on a global level. The implications of this vast task are at the heart of this timely conference

Further information

International Digital Curation Conference

Digital Curation Centre