About the Event
Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Louise Saul attended, and presented a CaSDaR Poster at the in-person 20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26), which took place in Zagreb, Croatia between 16-18 February 2026. The main theme for the conference was AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation.
Event Programme
Day 1 provided the participants with a range of workshops to attend, and Days 2-3 were predominantly presentations, interspersed with some poster sessions and networking.
Event Audience
The annual IDCC presents an opportunity for the global data community to congregate; this year’s conference, with the theme of ‘AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation’, was held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Event Organiser
The conference is organised by CaSDaR’s project Partners, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), who have been championing good data practices for over twenty years and are a highly regarded group in this sphere. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management. The DCC provides expert advice and practical help on how to store, manage, protect and share digital research data. They provide a broad range of resources including online tools, guidance and training. They also provides consultancy services on issues such as policy development and data management planning. They have extensive experience working with research organisations, government agencies and other professional and business institutions both in the UK and internationally.
Outputs
CaSDaR’s PI, Samantha Pearman-Kanza, supported a workshop being delivered by another project partner, the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure, on improving how we as a community implement and use Data Management Plans. Samantha also presented a poster which introduced the aims of CaSDaR, as well as introducing Cassie to the community (the most important part of the event!). Cassie had a chance to meet up with Angus and Percy, the data puffins. The wonder Cassie CaSDaR poster designed by Cerys Willoughby can be found on Zenodo here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18669414
The CaSDaR team strengthened existing connections and made new ones; the event was great to attend, and we look forward to future work with our project partners.