curation Archives

IDCC25: The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else…..

Mary Ann Tuli - March 28, 2025

Mary Ann Tuli and Bastien Molcrette provide a write up of IDCC25 at The Hague. “The greatest discoveries made from your data will be made by someone else…..” This deliberately provocative phrase, uttered by a conference participant, sums up the challenge of preserving scientific data: to make useful information available to those, present and future, […]

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AIBC – India. Biocuration, long days, even longer traffic jams.

Chris Hunter - March 26, 2024

The Annual International Biocuration Conference (AIBC) was held for the first in India, at the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC), Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Faridabad and co-hosted by the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus. As usual, GigaDB had representation at the event (see write-ups of many previous meetings here), […]

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Reflect, Enjoy, Do something! Lessons from the International Digital Curation Conference

Chris Hunter - March 1, 2024

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Kevin Ashley’s (DCC director) closing remark at the IDCC (International Digital Curation Conference) 2024 meeting was “Reflect, Enjoy, Do something!”. Hopefully you will enjoy my doing something. The International Digital Curation Conference meeting in The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 19-22 Feb 2024, marks their first in-person meeting for 4 years (and an even longer […]

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