I'm delighted to share some details about the upcoming 17th International Digital Curation Conference. As in previous years, IDCC is organised by the Digital Curation Centre and once again, I'm delighted that CNI will serve as a supporting partner for this important event.

IDCC22 will be a virtual event. The main conference will span two days 14-15 June, with a social event on the evening of 13 June. The programme will consist of a mix of keynote lectures, papers, lightning talks and poster presentations. This year we will not include demonstrations but we are happy to be able to reintroduce the workshops, which will take place on 13 and 16 June, depending upon number of submissions. The programme will run approximately 9 am - 5 pm British Summer Time (UTC+1), but we will place some sessions in a way that will make it friendly to other time zones.  All sessions will be recorded.

The broad conference theme is reusability.

Papers are invited to address one or multiple themes in the broad scope of Reusability. Suggested topics include:

- What does curating for reuse mean when considering collections of software, workflows, virtual worlds and other types of content?

- Relationships between Open Data, Citizen Science, Scholarship and Digital Curation as enabler of societal engagement in science, arts and humanities.

- Balancing reusability between wide and narrow audiences - techniques, costs, workflows

- Reuse strategies for environmental sustainability in digital curation.

For more topics, please visit the full call for papers page on the IDCC22 site, https://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc22 .

We are inviting submissions for:

- Papers

- Lightning Talks

- Posters

- Workshops

The submission deadline for initial proposals will be 8 March 2022.

For full submissions instructions, please visit https://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc22/submissions/




Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI