[Asis-l] 2nd International Digital Curation Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

2nd International Digital Curation Conference: CALL FOR PAPERS

We're looking for original submissions for our conference in the form of
one page abstracts in PDF or Microsoft Word format no later than 3 April
2006.

***Call for Papers***

The DCC welcomes contributions and participation from individuals,
organisations and institutions interested in the curation of data and
the management of repositories for science and scholarship. This
includes all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation,
use, re-use and long-term management of digital data from researchers
and curators, through to policy makers and funders.

All proposals will be considered for papers, workshops, demonstrations
and posters with both a practical and a research focus by our Programme
Committee, chaired by:

     - Chris Rusbridge, Director of the Digital Curation Centre
     - Professor Tony Hey, Vice President of Technical Computing
Initiative (TCI), Microsoft

Papers and workshops will form part of the main conference; posters and
demonstrations will be hosted in an adjoining room to the main
auditorium and will have a dedicated session as part of the Conference
programme. Posters and demonstrations will also be available during
refreshment breaks.

* Main Topics *

The following topics have been identified as being of interest, but are
not a definitive list:

Data Capture & Integration into Research Workflows

     - Data creation, collection and capture
     - Data life-cycle management

Describing Data

     - Data management, storage and validation
     - Description of datasets
     - Metadata packaging standards
     - Representation Information Registries

Digital Repository Management

     - Audit and certification
     - Economics and legal rights matters
     - Managing complex objects
     - Preservation
     - Self-archiving

Data and Publication

     - Datasets as complex objects,
     - Data disclosure
     - Publication, citation, discovery and reuse
     - Publishing scientific databases
     - Semantic descriptions of datasets
     - Scholarly communication and datasets

Adding Value

     - Data linking
     - Data provenance and annotation
     - Data reuse
     - Integrating scientific databases
     - Simulation
     - Visualisation

Post-Processing and Knowledge Extraction

     - Analysis
     - Data mining
     - Data modelling
     - Ontologies
     - Synthesis

Workforce Development

     - Achieving cultural change
     - Capacity building
     - Collaboration
     - Training and professional development

* Submission Details *

Authors are invited to submit one page abstracts by sending a PDF or
Word document to one of the following addresses:

     - Papers: dcc-papers at ukoln.ac.uk
     - Workshops: dcc-workshops at ukoln.ac.uk
     - Demonstrations: dcc-demos at ukoln.ac.uk
     - Posters: dcc-posters at ukoln.ac.uk

* Important Dates *

     - Deadline for all submissions: 3 April 2006
     - Notification of authors: 31 May 2006
     - Final papers/workshops deadline: 8 September 2006

Final instructions for demos and posters will be issued separately.

* Further Information *

If you have any questions about the conference, please contact Natasha
Bishop n.bishop at ukoln.ac.uk


DCC website: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
Conference webpage: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/
Call for papers: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/call-for-papers/

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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
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University of Glasgow
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