The first day of the conference will focus on three key topics:

* Radical sharing, new ways of doing science e.g. large scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wikis, blogs, social networks, visualisations and immersive environments
* Sustainability of curation
* Legal issues including privacy, confidentiality and consent, intellectual property rights and provenance

The second day of the conference will be dedicated to research and development and will feature peer-reviewed papers in themed parallel sessions.