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I wanted to share the call for papers that has now been issued by the
2018 International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), which will take
place in Barcelona on 19-22 January. CNI is once again collaborating on
this conference, which is organized by the UK Digital Curation Center.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Beyond FAIR - from principles to practice to global join up
The need to manage and share digital outputs and data has been clearly
articulated and gained international traction over the past decade or
more. Effective data handling skills and curation services are
essential to support and embed these practices. Much progress has been
made towards implementation with services being provided by research
institutions, funders, domain groups, commercial providers and others.
As the landscape matures, attention is turning to coordination and
interoperability, with investments being made in the NIH Commons
initiative, the European Open Science Cloud and African Open Science
Platform. This evolution poses many difficult questions: Who is
responsible for what? What do principles like FAIR mean in reality and
how should they be assessed? How do you join up or ensure
interoperability across existing and emerging infrastructure and
services? Where does the investment come from and how do we make this
sustainable?
The focus of IDCC in 2018 is sharing practical lessons on the efforts
made so far to curate data and pursue a digital data commons. Papers
should address one of three overarching themes:
• Data
• Skills and services
• Value
We want to hear from different communities on data processing pipelines
- what works and where do tools fail you? How realistic is it to use
other people's data? And what challenges emerge from the current
policies and drivers for openness?
Lessons from those supporting and curating data and digital collections
are also called for: what programmes have you been running to share
skills and build capacity? To what extent are you tailoring provision
to different domains? How are the services on offer maturing and
evolving?
In terms of impact and sustainability, we want to know what value is
being generated for society by sharing and reusing data? What models
are emerging to demonstrate the impact of services. And how are
services being sustained?
THE DATA
The realities of working with data
• Fitting a square peg into a round hole - data wrangling experiences
from the coalface
• Using other people's data and the benefits and challenges this brings
• Implementing FAIR data - how it applies (or not) in different
contexts
• Data publishing and getting credit
• The importance of metadata
• I can't preserve that! Digital curation lessons learned the hard way
• Big Data: hype or hope?
Sensitive data and legal challenges
• Ethical and societal challenges in a climate of openness
• Fairness, transparency, privacy: can personal data be FAIR?
• Secure data services
• Regulatory change and its impact on digital curation
• Legal interoperability in international research
• Inspiring trust: needs of the 21st century data governance system
• Increasing personalization/user modeling and navigating the tension
between usability and privacy
THE SKILLS & SERVICES
Skills and competence building
• Data champion and advocacy programmes
• Emerging models to build capacity and skills e.g. library/researcher
partnerships, train-the-trainer models, peer-exchange, summer school
programmes, learning-by-doing
• Professionalising data science and stewardship roles: accreditation
and recognition
• Disciplinary tailoring and research community connections
• What are the challenges and opportunities in developing cross-domain
expertise?
• Recognising and rewarding good practice
Services
• Service discoverability in a distributed environment
• Domain-specific vs generic services - what is the scope for either,
what lessons can we draw from existing experience?
• Many niche providers vs few, monolithic providers - what works best
for researchers and research?
• The role of national data services
• Building links between people, data and services
• New innovations and offerings in response to community uptake and
needs
• Interoperability and services as part of the global data commons
THE VALUE
Data, society and impact
• Measuring and demonstrating impact
• Data science: connecting data to solve grand challenges
• How to generate significant economic, social and scientific value
from (big) data?
• How machine learning can transform research and change data curation
practices
• Cultural heritage collections, time-based media arts and digital
humanities
• How data can amplify or reduce existing inequalities - or create new
ones
Sustainability and coordinated service planning
• Successful project delivery, now what? How to keep momentum and
transition to service
• Making the business case for open science and research data
management
• Who should pay? Business models for sustainable investments
• International collaboration and interoperable services
• Tracking impact and meeting user needs
Submissions can take a number of forms, including research papers,
practice papers, posters and workshops. Papers are all considered for
fee-free open-access publication in the International Journal of
Digital Curation.
For more details on the submission process, criteria and submission
deadlines, please visit the conference website
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2018 .
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