IDCC14 - Speakers announced

We are currently working on an exciting line-up of speakers for IDCC14 and will be publishing the full programme shortly, but in the meantime are delighted to announce details of our confirmed speakers.

• Francine Berman is the Edward G. Hamilton Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the IEEE. In 2009, Dr. Berman was the inaugural recipient of the ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award for "influential leadership in the design, development, and deployment of national-scale cyberinfrastructure."
• Atul Bute is Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, and by courtesy, Medicine and Computer Science, at Stanford University and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. In 2013, Dr. Butte was recognized by the White House as an Open Science Champion of Change for promoting science through publicly available data.
• Simon Hodson is Executive Director of CODATA, an organisation whose mission is to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use.  He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Dryad data repository , a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.  From 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successive phases of Jisc's innovative Managing Research Data programme
• Brian Hole is  a researcher and publisher working within the humanities and information science, with a focus on ethics and inclusive systems. Brian also runs a researcher-focused publishing company called Ubiquity Press, Brian founded Ubiquity Press in 2008. The focus of the company is on breaking down barriers to communication in the research community by improving access to research informantion, especially for those largely excluded by current economic and political policies of societies and publishers.

• Jane Hunter is Professorial Research Fellow & Leader of the eResearch LabSchool of ITEE (School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering) at the University of Queensland. Her area of expertise is the application of semantic web technologies to the integration, organization and preservation of research data and collections.

• Seamus Ross is Dean at iSchool (Faculty of Information) at the University of Toronto in 2009. Prof. Ross has a passion for research in the areas of preserving cultural heritage and scientific digital objects, humanities informatics, and the application of information technology to libraries, archives and museums. From 1997, he was Founding Director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), at the University of Glasgow, and Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation. Since 2004, Prof. Ross had also been the Associate Director of the United Kingdom’s Digital Curation Centre.

For more information about the speakers check the Speaker information page

The 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be held from Monday 24 February to Thursday 27 February 2014 at the Omni San Francisco Hotel (at Montgomery). Registration will open in October 2013.